gale
Danish
/ɡaːlə/
verb
Definitions
- to crow mostly of the sound of the cock
- to scream
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse gala, chant, to sing, crow inherited from Proto-Germanic *galaną (sing, charm, shout, yell, roop).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*galaną
Gloss
sing, charm, shout, yell, roop
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- gale English
- galelike English
- galeproof English
- nightingale English
- gala Spanish, Castilian
- *gʰel- Proto-Indo-European
- *galaną Proto-Germanic
- gala Swedish
- galan Old English
- galen Middle English
- gala Old Norse
- gala, chant, to sing, crow Old Norse
- bindegal Danish
- gal Danish
- galehus Danish
- galskab Danish
- splittergal Danish
- galt Old High German
- dgêle Norman
- *galan gmw-pro
- galæn Old Danish