gellen

From Middle High German gëllen, from Old High German gellan, from Proto-Germanic *gellaną (“to yell”). More at yell.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛlən/

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gellen (weak, third-person singular present gellt, past tense gellte, past participle gegellt, auxiliary haben) (now rare outside the present participle gellend)

1. (intransitive) to emit a loud, clear and strident sound

   Die gegnerische Mannschaft wurde mit einem gellenden Pfeifkonzert empfangen.

   The opposing team was welcomed with a shrill chorus of whistles.

2. (intransitive, of a place or one’s ears) to be shaken by such a sound, to reverberate with it

• “gellen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “gellen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• Vollständiges Deutsches Wörter-Buch vel Lexicon germanico-latinum cum praefationibus et autoris et Iohannis Ulrici König, Breßlau, 1734: "Gegollen (act. ich habe) praes. ich gelle, sonum edo, imperf. ich gall (& usus probat) gahl. Es gillt mir in den Ohren, aurium tinnitum percipio."
• Joh. Siegm. Val. Popowitsch, Die nothwendigsten Anfangsgründe der Teutschen Sprachkunst zum Gebrauche der Österreichischen Schulen auf allerhöchsten Befehl ausgefertiget & Anfängsgründe der Teutschen Sprachkunst zum Gebrauche der Österreichischen Schulen herausgegeben, Wienn, 1754: "Gellen sonum edere, gieng ehedessen so: du gillst, es gillt, es gall, es gälle, es hat gegollen"

From Middle Low German gelden, from Old Saxon geldan.

Compare Dutch gelden, English yield, West Frisian jilde, German gelten, Icelandic gjalda.

gellen (past singular gull, past participle gullen, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. (intransitive) to be valid; to count; to hold true
2. (intransitive) to be effective; to be in force
3. (transitive) to be worth
4. (intransitive, with an oblique personal object) to be meant for
5. (intransitive, with “as” or “för”) to be regarded (as something); to pass (for something)
6. (impersonal) to be necessary
7. (intransitive, with “laten”) to pass; to go; (Like in standard German, often translated with laten as a unit into allow, endure, permit, accept, etc.)

   Dat will ik utnahmwies mal gellen laten. ― I will let that pass as an exception.

• Geld
• Gellen
• güllig
• Gold

From Old Dutch *gellan, from Proto-Germanic *gellaną.

gellen

1. to yell, scream

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: gillen

• “ghellen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “gellen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I