gaol

English

The old Melbourne gaol

Etymology

From Middle English gayole, Middle English gajol, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, via Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, for Vulgar Latin *caveola, a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). See also cage.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʒeɪl/
  • Rhymes: -eɪl

Noun

gaol (plural gaols)

  1. (Commonwealth of Nations, dated) Alternative spelling of jail
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess‎:
      ‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’
    • 2000, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:
      Sirius had been in Azkaban, the terrifying wizard gaol guarded by creatures called Dementors

Usage notes

Gaol was the more common spelling between about 1760 and 1830,[1] and is still preferred in proper names in some regions. Most Australian newspapers use jail rather than gaol, citing either narrower print width or the possibility of transposing letters in gaol to produce goal.[2]

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:jail

Verb

gaol (third-person singular simple present gaols, present participle gaoling, simple past and past participle gaoled)

  1. (Commonwealth of Nations, dated) Alternative spelling of jail

Derived terms

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Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish gáel (“relationship”), from Proto-Celtic *gaylo- (compare Lithuanian gailùs (“compassionate”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gailjan, “gladden”), German geil (“wanton”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

gaol m (genitive singular gaoil, nominative plural gaolta)

  1. relationship, kinship; kindred feeling
  2. relation, kin; relative
  3. relation between things, connection

Declension

Derived terms

  • salachar gaoil (“distant relationship”)
  • neasghaol (“next of kin”)
  • gaolmhar (“associated; relative, related; cognate”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gaol ghaol ngaol
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish gáel (“relationship”), from Proto-Celtic *gaylo-; compare Lithuanian gailùs (“compassionate”); Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gailjan, “gladden”), German geil (“wanton”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɯːɫ̪/

Noun

gaol m (genitive singular gaoil, plural gaoil)

  1. love, affection
    Tha gaol agam ort. ― I love you.
    (literally "is love at me on you")
    Ghabh i trom ghaol air. ― She fell madly in love with him.

Declension

Bare forms

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativegaolgaoil
Dativegaolgaoil
Genitivegaoilgaol
Vocativea ghaoila ghaola

Forms with the definite article

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativean gaolna gaoil
Dativea' ghaolna gaoil
Genitivea' ghaoilnan gaol

Usage notes

The love expressed by gaol is more intimate in nature than that of gràdh.

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
gaolghaol
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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