gals

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See also: GALS

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡælz/
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  • Rhymes: -ælz

Noun

gals

  1. plural of gal

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Adjective

gals

  1. masculine plural of gal

Noun

gals

  1. plural of gal

Latvian

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Balto-Slavic *galas, from 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-West Germanic *kwalm also from *gʷol-
  2. "to stab" > "a sharp point, tip, end."[1]

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Noun

gals m (1st declension)

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

Declension

Declension of gals (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) gals gali
accusative (akuzatīvs) galu galus
genitive (ģenitīvs) gala galu
dative (datīvs) galam galiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) galu galiem
locative (lokatīvs) galā galos
vocative (vokatīvs) gal gali

Synonyms

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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