gille
Gaelic (Scots)
/ˈkʲiʎə/
noun
Definitions
- (dated) servant, follower
- boy, lad, youth male aged from the toddler years to about the middle twenties
- man, boy as a familiar address for a male of any age
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Irish gilla (youth, servant, messenger, a youth of an age to bear arms, male child, page, young man, boy) derived from Old Norse gildr (of full worth, stout, brawny, or quality, great, full, size, measure, absolute, complete).
Origin
Old Norse
gildr
Gloss
of full worth, stout, brawny, or quality, great, full, size, measure, absolute, complete
Concept
Semantic Field
Quantity
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antichild English
- belchild English
- birthchild English
- boychild English
- brainchild English
- child English
- child-free English
- child-great English
- child-in-law English
- childbearer English
- childbearing English
- childbed English
- childcare English
- childcarer English
- childcaring English
- childe English
- childed English
- childfucker English
- childhood English
- childie English
- childing English
- childish English
- childism English
- childkind English
- childless English
- childlike English
- childline English
- childling English
- childlore English
- childly English
- childmind English
- childminder English
- childness English
- childproof English
- childraiser English
- childraising English
- childrearer English
- childrearing English
- children English
- childsafe English
- childship English
- childspeak English
- childtime English
- childwear English
- dreamchild English
- extraguild English
- frithguild English
- gillie English
- girlchild English
- grandchild English
- guild English
- guildable English
- guildhall English
- guildie English
- guildless English
- guildlike English
- guildmaster English
- guildmate English
- guildmember English
- guildship English
- guildsman English
- guildswoman English
- intraguild English
- man child English
- manchild English
- merchild English
- moonchild English
- nonchild English
- saleschild English
- schoolchild English
- semichild English
- stepchild English
- superchild English
- twichild English
- unchild English
- womanchild English
- womb-child English
- wombchild English
- wonderchild English
- *geldą Proto-Germanic
- *kelþaz Proto-Germanic
- cildhad Old English
- cildisc Old English
- cildlic Old English
- gild Old English
- leorningcild Old English
- steopcild Old English
- ċild Old English
- child Middle English
- chyld Middle English
- gilde Middle English
- gild Irish
- giolla Irish
- gildr Old Norse
- gille-ruadh Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- ruadh Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- guilley Manx
- gilla Middle Irish
- gillacht Middle Irish
- gillaighecht Middle Irish
- gillanrad Middle Irish
- gillarad Middle Irish
- gillán Middle Irish