different between gully vs vale

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?l'?, IPA^(key): /???li/
• Rhymes: -?li

Etymology 1

From Middle English golet, from Old French goulet, from Latin gula (“throat”).

Noun

gully (plural gullies)

1. A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.

   Synonym: gill

2. A small valley.
3. (Britain) A drop kerb.
4. A road drain.
5. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position

   Synonym: box

6. (Britain) A grooved iron rail or tram plate.

Alternative forms

• gulley

Related terms

• gullet
• gully gut
• gully hole

Descendants

• ? German: Gully

Translations

Verb

gully (third-person singular simple present gullies, present participle gullying, simple past and past participle gullied)

1. (obsolete) To flow noisily.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

2. (transitive) To wear away into a gully or gullies.

Etymology 2

From Scots gully, of unknown origin.

Noun

gully (plural gullies)

1. (Scotland, northern UK) A large knife.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, page 139:

     With that I made my mind up, took out my gully, opened it with my teeth, and cut one strand after another […]

Further reading

• gully on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gullies And Other Knives

Scots

Etymology

Origin unknown.

Noun

gully (plural gullies)

1. large knife

   • God than he lewch and owre the dyk lap, / And owt of his scheith his gully owtgatt. (The Bannatyne Manuscript)

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English vale, from Old French val (“valley”), from Latin vallis, valles.

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?l, IPA^(key): /ve?l/, [ve??]
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophones: veil, vail

Noun

vale (plural vales)

1. (chiefly poetic) A valley.

   Synonyms: dale; see also Thesaurus:valley

   Antonym: hill

Derived terms

Related terms

• valley

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin val?, singular imperative of vale? (“be well”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: vä?l?, IPA^(key): /?v??le?/

Interjection

vale

1. (usually seen in obituaries) Farewell.

   Vale, Sarah Smith

Related terms

• valediction
• valiant

Anagrams

• Leva, Veal, Vela, avel, eval, lave, leva, veal, vela

Aromanian

Noun

vale f (definite articulation valea)

1. Alternative form of vali

Czech

Etymology

Ultimately taken from Latin valeo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?val?]
• Rhymes: -al?

Interjection

vale

1. (archaic, informal) farewell, good bye

Synonyms

• sbohem; see ahoj

Related terms

Further reading

• vale in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• vale in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *valeh. Cognate to Finnish valhe and Votic valõ. Possibly a derivation from valama, where the word originally might have meant "sausage poured into an intestine", which was then used idiomatically with the meaning of "lie".

Adjective

vale (genitive vale, partitive valet)

1. false

Noun

vale (genitive vale, partitive valet)

1. lie

Declension

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central Pacific *vale, from Proto-Oceanic *pale, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.

Noun

vale

1. house
2. building

Finnish

Alternative forms

• valhe

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *valeh. Possibly from valaa (“to cast”) through val +? -e or rather the equivalent in Proto-Finnic. Cognate to Estonian vale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???le?/, [???le?(?)]
• Rhymes: -?le
• Syllabification: va?le

Noun

vale

1. (colloquial) A lie; an untruth; a fabrication.
2. As modifier in compound terms (vale-), false, virtual, pseudo-, fake

   valekuva = virtual image

   valepuku = disguise

   valeraskaus = false pregnancy

Declension

Synonyms

• (untruth): valhe, epätotuus

Derived terms

• valehdella

Compounds

Related terms

• valheellinen

Anagrams

• alve

Galician

Verb

vale

1. third-person singular present indicative of valer
2. second-person singular imperative of valer

Ingrian

Noun

vale

1. lie (untruth)

Italian

Verb

vale

1. third-person singular present indicative of valere

Anagrams

• lave, leva, vela

Latin

Etymology

From the verb vale? (“I am well, healthy”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?a.le?/, [?u?ä??e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?va.le/, [?v??l?]

Interjection

val?

1. Goodbye, farewell.
   • a. 54 BC, Catullus, Catullus 101

     ave atque vale

     Hail and farewell

Usage notes

• This is the singular form. When addressing a group, val?te is used.

Descendants

• ? English: vale

Verb

val?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vale?

Synonyms

• ad Deum

References

• vale in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vale in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?va.le/
• Hyphenation: va?le

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese vale, val, from Latin vallis, vallem (“valley”).

Noun

vale m (plural vales)

1. valley

Related terms

• val

Etymology 2

From the verb valer (“to be worth”).

Noun

vale m (plural vales)

1. voucher, coupon

   Synonyms: (Brazil) cupom, (Portugal) cupão

Verb

vale

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of valer
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of valer

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem. Compare Aromanian vali.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?vale]

Noun

vale f (plural v?i)

1. valley

Declension

Related terms

• vâlcea

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bale/, [?ba.le]

Etymology 1

A nominalisation of vale, third person singular active indicative of valer (“to be worth”).

Noun

vale m (plural vales)

1. a voucher; an IOU

Derived terms

• valefacer (“to make an IOU”)
• vale de comida (“meal ticket”)

Etymology 2

See valer.

Interjection

vale

1. (Spain) okay

Usage notes

In Mexico, the complete expression sale y vale is also used to mean "OK".

Verb

vale

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of valer.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of valer.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of valer.

Etymology 3

From Latin val? (“be well, goodbye”).

Interjection

vale

1. goodbye, be well

Swedish

Noun

vale ?

1. Fix sea mark on land (Historical use in West Sweden)

Anagrams

• elva, lave, leva, vela