gale

• IPA^(key): /ɡeɪl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪl
• Homophone: Gail

From Middle English galen, from Old English galan (“to sing, enchant, call, cry, scream; sing charms, practice incantation”), from Proto-Germanic *galaną (“to roop, sing, charm”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout, scream, charm away”). Cognate with Danish gale (“to crow”), Swedish gala (“to crow”), Icelandic gala (“to sing, chant, crow”), Dutch galm (“echo, sound, noise”). Related to yell.

gale (third-person singular simple present gales, present participle galing, simple past galed or gole, past participle galed or galen)

1. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To cry; groan; croak.
2. (intransitive, of a person, now chiefly dialectal) To talk.
3. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; utter with musical modulations.

From Middle English gale (“a wind, breeze”), possibly from Old English galan, possibly an unknown North Germanic origin, related to Icelandic gola (“a breeze”), Danish gal (“furious, mad”),[1] both from Old Norse gala (“to sing”), and thus ultimately related to the above word (etymology 1).

gale (plural gales)

1. (meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.

   It's blowing a gale outside.

   Many parts of the boat were damaged in the gale.

   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xii:

     With my mother's permission and blessings, I set off exultantly for Bombay, leaving my wife with a baby of a few months. But on arrival there, friends told my brother that the Indian Ocean was rough in June and July, and as this was my first voyage, I should not be allowed to sail until November. Someone also reported that a steamer had just been sunk in a gale. This made my brother uneasy, and he refused to take the risk of allowing me to sail immediately.

2. An outburst, especially of laughter.

   a gale of laughter

   • 1972, International Association of Seed Crushers, Congress [proceedings]:

     The slightest hint of smugness would have had the nation leaning over our shoulders to blow out the birthday candles with a gale of reproach and disapproval.

3. (literary, archaic) A light breeze.
   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

     A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.

   • 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:

     And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odours fanned / From their soft wings.

• (meteorology): breeze, hurricane, storm

• Beaufort scale

gale (third-person singular simple present gales, present participle galing, simple past and past participle galed)

1. (nautical) To sail, or sail fast.

From Middle English gaile, gawl, gawwyl, gaȝel, gagel, from Old English gagel, gagelle, gagille, gagolle (“gale; sweet gale”), from Proto-Germanic *gagulaz (“gale; sweet-willow”). Cognate with Scots gaul, gall (“bog-myrtle”), Dutch gagel (“wild mytle”), German Gagel (“mytle-bush”), Icelandic gaglviður (“sweet-gale; myrtle”).

gale

1. A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.

From Middle English gavel (“rent; tribute”), from Old English gafol.

gale (plural gales)

1. (archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.

   Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.

• “gale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Gael, Lega, egal, geal, lage, leag

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈle/, [ɡʌˈlɛ]
• Hyphenation: ga‧le

galé f 

1. corner

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “gale”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

gale

1. fish

   Nan gale tek-nak-ey po.

   We've been catching fish.

• Harry Feldman. A Grammar of Awtuw. (Pacific Linguistics: Series B, 94.) (1986)

gale

1. eagerness

• IPA^(key): /ɡaːlə/, [ˈɡ̊æːlə]

From Old Norse to sing, crow, chant, from Proto-Germanic *galaną, cognate with Norwegian gale, Swedish gala, English gale.

gale (past tense galede, or (archaic) gol, past participle galet)

1. to crow (mostly of the sound of the cock)
2. to scream

• “gale” in Den Danske Ordbog

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gale

1. definite singular of gal
2. plural of gal

Variant of galle.

• IPA^(key): /ɡal/

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gale f (plural gales)

1. scabies; mange

• galeux

• “gale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• égal, Gaël, gela

gale

1. inflection of galar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

gale f

1. plural of gala

• Gela, Lega, gela, lega

From Old Norse gala.

gale (imperative gal, present tense galer, simple past gol or galte, past participle galt)

1. to make a sound characteristic of a rooster; to crow

gale

1. definite singular of gal
2. plural of gal

• “gale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

gale (present tense gjel, past tense gol, supine gale, past participle galen, present participle galande, imperative gal)

1. Alternative form of gala

• galent

gale

1. neuter singular of galen

• alge, egal, egla, lage, lega

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.lɛ/
• Rhymes: -alɛ
• Syllabification: ga‧le
• Homophones: Gale, galę

gale

1. dative/locative singular of gała

gale

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of gala

gale

1. inflection of galar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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gale (definite accusative galeyi, plural galeler)

1. (Antalya) Synonym of sincap (“squirrel”)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gale¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1633

gale (definite accusative galeyi, plural galeler)

1. (dialect) Alternative form of kale

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gale²”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1633

From Ottoman Turkish غاله (gale), from French galée.

gale (definite accusative galeyi, plural galeler)

1. (printing) galley

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gale⁶”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1633
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN