different between pell vs gell

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel-ni-. Distantly related to fell and film.

Noun

pell (plural pells)

1. A fur or hide.
2. A lined cloak or its lining.
3. A roll of parchment; a record kept on parchment.
   • 1835, Frederick Devon (editor and translator), Issue Roll of Thomas de Brantingham, Bishop of Exeter, Lord High Treasurer of England, Containing Payments Made out of His Majesty?s Revenue in the 44th Year of King Edward III.: A.D. 1370, page xi,

     The clerk of the pell (whose office is in the Lord Treasurer?s gift) keepeth the Pells in parchment, called Pelles Receptæ, wherein every teller?s bill, with his name on it, is to be entred; and under every such bill when it is entred, recordatur to be written in open court, for a controlment to charge the teller with so much money as in the said bill is set downe.

     He also anciently kept another pell, called Pellis Exitus, wherein every dayes issuing of any the moneys paid into the receipt, was to be entered, and by whom and by what warrant, privy seale, or bill, it was paid.

4. (Sussex) A body of water somewhere between a pond and a lake in size.
5. An upright post, often padded and covered in hide, used to practice strikes with bladed weapons such as swords or glaives.

Derived terms

• clerk of the pells

Related terms

• pelt
• fell
• pelisse
• pellagra
• pellage
• pellicle
• peltry

Etymology 2

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Verb

pell (third-person singular simple present pells, present participle pelling, simple past and past participle pelled)

1. To pelt; to knock about.

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Breton

Etymology

Cognate with Welsh pell (“far”).

Adverb

pell

1. far

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin pellis, pellem, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pe?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

pell f (plural pells)

1. (anatomy) skin
2. pelt

Derived terms

• pellofa

Further reading

• “pell” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

German

Pronunciation

Verb

pell

1. singular imperative of pellen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of pellen

Welsh

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *k?el-.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /p??/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /pe??/, /p??/

Adjective

pell (feminine singular pell, plural pell, equative pelled, comparative pellach, superlative pellaf)

1. far, distant

Derived terms

• rheolydd pell

Mutation

References

English

Noun

gell (plural gells)

1. Pronunciation spelling of girl.
   • 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: "The engine-burglar":

     "You're a naughty little gell, that's what you are," said the fireman, and the engine-driver said:--

     "Daring little piece, I call her," but they made her sit down on an iron seat in the cab and told her to stop crying and tell them what she meant by it.

2. Alternative form of gill (a leech)

Breton

Noun

gell

1. Soft mutation of kell.

Adjective

gell

1. brown

See also

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *gello- (“yellow”) or *gelo- (“white”) (compare Middle Welsh gell (“yellow”), Old Irish gel (“white, fair, shining”), whence Irish geal (“white, bright”)), from Proto-Indo-European *??elh?- (“gleam, yellow”) (compare English yellow, Ancient Greek ?????? (khl?rós, “light green”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Persian ??? (zar, “yellow”), Sanskrit ??? (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Welsh gwelw (“pale”))).

Adjective

gell

1. light brown

See also

Related terms

• gorm (“dark brown”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

gell

1. Soft mutation of kell.

Mutation

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From gellen.

Adjective

gell (comparative geller, superlative am gellsten)

1. (literary) shrill

Declension

Etymology 2

From gelten (“to be valid”).

Adverb

gell

1. (colloquial, regional, southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria) right?; is it?; is it not?

   Synonyms: ne, nicht, nicht wahr, oder, wa

Further reading

• “gell (adjective)” in Duden online
• “gell (interjection)” in Duden online

Icelandic

Verb

gell (strong)

1. first-person singular present indicative of gjalla

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *geldom (“pledge”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *g?eld?- (compare Proto-Germanic *geldan? (“to pay”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??el?/

Noun

gell n

1. a pledge, a surety.
2. a hostage
3. a stake, a wager

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle Irish: gell
  • Irish: geall
  • Scottish Gaelic: geall

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

gell

1. Soft mutation of cell.

Mutation