From Middle English gelen, from Old French geler, from Latin gelāre, from gelu. See gelid. Scots jeel, geal.

• enPR: jēl', IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

geal (third-person singular simple present geals, present participle gealing, simple past and past participle gealed)

1. (obsolete or Scotland) To congeal.

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

• Gael, Gale, Lega, egal, gale, lage, leag

From Old Irish gel, from Proto-Celtic *gelos (“yellow, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”).

• IPA^(key): /ɟal̪ˠ/, /ɟalˠ/

geal m (genitive singular gil)

1. white, bright(ness)

geal (genitive singular masculine gil, genitive singular feminine gile, plural geala, comparative gile)

1. white

   Synonym: bán

   Tá a craiceann chomh geal le sneachta.

   Her skin is as white as snow.

2. bright
3. clear
4. (literary) fallow
5. (figuratively) bright, pure; glad, happy; dear, beloved, fond

• 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:

  Tháinic sé colmáin gheala isteach ar an dorus, ⁊ shuidh siad ar philéir go robh an tAifrionn thart, ⁊ annsin chuaidh siad amach ar ais.

  Six white doves came into the door, and they sat upon a pillar till Mass was over, and then they went back out.

• 2015 , Will Collins, translated by Proinsias Mac a' Bhaird, edited by Maura McHugh, Amhrán na Mara (fiction; paperback), Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Howth, Dublin: Cartoon Saloon; Coiscéim, translation of Song of the Sea (in English), →ISBN, page 1:

  Thuas i dteach an tsolais, faoi réaltaí geala, canann Bronach Amhrán na Mara dá mac Ben atá cúig bliana d'aois.

geal (present analytic gealann, future analytic gealfaidh, verbal noun gealadh, past participle gealta)

1. (ambitransitive) to whiten, brighten; clear

   Gheal an spéir.

   The sky cleared.

2. (ambitransitive, figurative) to make or become glad, happy, fond

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “geal”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 523; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “geal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Old Irish gel, from Proto-Celtic *gelos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to shine”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡ̊ʲal̪ˠ/,

geal (comparative gile)

1. white, bright, pale

   Mas e 'n t-iasg do choinnlean geala, mas e na ròin do luchd-faire... ― If the fish are thy candles bright, if the seals are thy watchmen...

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