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Middle English
Etymology
From Old English ġealga, galga, from Proto-Germanic *galgô.
Noun
galwes
- gallows
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Monk's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3941-3942:
‘The tree,’ quod she, ‘the galwes is to mene,
And Iuppiter bitokneth snow and reyn,’ [...]- ‘The tree,’ said she, ‘is to signify the gallows,
And Jupiter betokens snow and rain,’
Descendants
References
Welsh
Pronunciation
Verb
galwes
- first-person singular preterite colloquial of galw
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
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