gell

gell (plural gells)

1. Pronunciation spelling of girl.
   • 1861, George Eliot, “Chapter 14”, in Silas Marner:

     Well, mayhap that'll do, as it's a little gell, for they're easier persuaded to sit i' one place nor the lads.

   • 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.

gell (plural gells)

1. Alternative form of gill (“a leech”)

gell

1. Soft mutation of kell.

gell

1. brown

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛlː/

From Proto-Celtic *gello- (“yellow”) or *gelo- (“white”) (compare Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Old Irish gel (“white, fair, shining”), whence Irish geal (“white, bright”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”) (compare English yellow, Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Persian زر‎ (zar, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Welsh gwelw (“pale”))).

gell

1. light brown

• gorm (“dark brown”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gell

1. Soft mutation of kell.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

From gellen.

gell (strong nominative masculine singular geller, comparative geller, superlative am gellsten)

1. (literary) shrill

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Clipping of gelt es, from gelten (“to be valid”).

gell

1. (colloquial, regional, Southern German, Switzerland, Austria, South Tyrol, Alsace) right?; is it?; is it not?

   Synonyms: ne, oder, wa; see also Thesaurus:nicht wahr

   Wir gehen, gell? ― We’re going, aren’t we?

   Du verstehst mich, gell? ― You understand me, right?

• gelle, gelt

• “gell (adjective)” in Duden online
• “gell (interjection)” in Duden online
• “gell” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

gell (strong)

1. first-person singular present indicative of gjalla

From Proto-Celtic *geldom (“pledge”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (compare Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”)).

• IPA^(key): /ɡʲel͈/

gell n

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

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• gellach
• gellaid
• forcell

• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Irish: geall
  • Scottish Gaelic: geall
• ⇒ Middle Irish: gillán

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛɬ/

From Latin cella

gell

1. Soft mutation of cell.

From Proto-Celtic *gello- (“yellow”) or *gelo- (“white”) (compare Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Old Irish gel (“white, fair, shining”), whence Irish geal (“white, bright”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”) (compare English yellow, Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Persian زر‎ (zar, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Welsh gwelw (“pale”))).

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1. bay (colour)

• gellgi (“a Welsh staghound”)

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• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gell”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies