gâdila

Romanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably ultimately from Ottoman Turkish قیدیقلانمق (gıdıklanmak). Compare Aromanian gadil, Bulgarian gădeličkam, Albanian gudulis. Other theories also existed, including the Latin catulīre, or *cattellāre, a derivation from the aforementioned Bulgarian, or a Dacian substratum word of Indo-European origin, compare *geid- (tickle).[1]

Verb

a gâdila (third-person singular present gâdilă, past participle gâdilat) 1st conj.

  1. to tickle

Conjugation

References

  1. gâdila in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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