Gale
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gale¹
- /ɡeɪl/
Sounds like Gail · Rhymes with -eɪl
Where it comes from
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.
verb gales · galing · galed · gole
- To cry; groan; croak.
- To talk.
- To sing; utter with musical modulations.
gale²
- /ɡeɪl/
Sounds like Gail · Rhymes with -eɪl
Where it comes from
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”), both from Old Norse gala (“to sing”), and thus ultimately related to the above word (etymology 1).
noun gales
- 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.
- An outburst, especially of laughter. a gale of laughter
- A light breeze. A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.
verb gales · galing · galed
- To sail, or sail fast.
gale³
- /ɡeɪl/
Sounds like Gail · Rhymes with -eɪl
Where it comes from
From Middle English gaile, gawl, gawwyl, gaȝel, gagel, from Old English gagel, gagelle, gagille, gagolle (“gale; sweet gale”), from Proto-West Germanic *gagul, from Proto-Germanic *gagulaz (“gale; sweet-willow”). Cognate with Scots gaul, gall (“bog-myrtle”), Dutch gagel (“wild myrtle”), German Gagel (“myrtle-bush”), Icelandic gaglviður (“sweet-gale; myrtle”).
noun
- A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.
gale⁴
- /ɡeɪl/
Sounds like Gail · Rhymes with -eɪl
Where it comes from
From Middle English gavel (“rent; tribute”), from Old English gafol.
noun gales
- A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity. Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.
- The personal mining plot of a freeminer. As a rule the free miners do not work their own 'gales,' but dispose of them to capitalists.
Gale⁵
proper noun
- A surname.
- A unisex given name. But my best friend, Gale Hawthorne, and his family will be depending on today’s haul and I can’t let them down.
- An unincorporated community in Alexander County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Center Township, Hendricks County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.
- A town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.
