gille
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Pronunciation
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Verb
gille
Etymology
From Middle Irish gilla; compare English child, Old English ċild. Zimmer thinks it is borrowed from Old Norse gildr (“stout, brawny, of full worth”); compare English guild, Old English gild (“payment”) (see geall), gilda (“fellow”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gille m (genitive singular gille, plural gillean)
- (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)
Usage notes
Declension
Declension of gille (class IId masculine noun)
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- balachan (“little boy”)
- balachan-sgoile (“schoolboy”)
- brogach (“sturdy little boy”)
- proitseach (“stripling”)
Derived terms
Derived terms
- gille-coise (“valet”)
- gille-comhailteachd (“best man”)
- gille-cruidh (“cowboy”)
- gille-cupa
- gille-feadaig (“dunlin”)
- gille-frithealaidh (“waiter; page”)
- gille-gach-gnothaich (“factotum”)
- gille-gnothaich (“errand boy”)
- gille-mo-ghnothaich (“lively, enterprising, dependable young man”)
- gille-mirein (“puppet”)
- gille-mùchain (“chimney sweep”)
- gille-oifis (“office boy”)
- gille-ruadh (“parr”)
- gille-tòine (“faggot, queen”)
- leanabh gille (“baby boy”)
- seana-ghille (“bachelor”)
Mutation
Etymology
Noun
gille n
Declension
Declension of gille
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- gille in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
- gille in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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