gals

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡælz/
  • Rhymes: -ælz

Noun

gals

  1. plural of gal

Anagrams

Catalan

Adjective

gals

  1. plural of gal

Noun

gals

  1. plural of gal

Latvian

Etymology

Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (ablauted to *gʷol-). Cognates: Lithuanian gãlas (“id.”), Old Prussian gallan ((acc.)), golis (“death”), Old Norse kveld (“evening, end of the day”), etc.

Semantic development:

  1. "to stab" > "to kill" > "death", from here the verbs galēt (“to slay”), galināt, nogalināt (“to kill”), the same development in Proto-Germanic *kwalmaz also from *gʷol-
  2. "to stab" > "a sharp point, tip, end."[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡals]

Noun

gals m (1st declension)

  1. tip, end
  2. conclusion
  3. ending
  4. (figuratively) demise, death
    darīt sev galu ― to kill oneself

Declension

References

  1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “gals”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Occitan

Noun

gals

  1. plural of gal

Old French

Noun

gals m

  1. inflection of gal:
    1. oblique plural
    2. nominative singular
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