gell

gell (plural gells)

1. Pronunciation spelling of girl.
   • 1861, George Eliot, “Chapter 14”, in Silas Marner:

     Well, mayhap that'll do, as it's a little gell, for they're easier persuaded to sit i' one place nor the lads.

   • 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: "The engine-burglar":

     "You're a naughty little gell, that's what you are," said the fireman, and the engine-driver said:--

     "Daring little piece, I call her," but they made her sit down on an iron seat in the cab and told her to stop crying and tell them what she meant by it.

gell (plural gells)

1. Alternative form of gill (“a leech”)

gell

1. Soft mutation of kell.

gell

1. brown

Colors in Breton · livioù (layout · text)

gwenn	louet	du
ruz	orañjez, melen-ruz; gell	melen
	gwer, glas
cyan		glas
	magenta; glasruz	roz

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛlː/

From Proto-Celtic *gello- (“yellow”) or *gelo- (“white”) (compare Middle Welsh gell (“yellow”), Old Irish gel (“white, fair, shining”), whence Irish geal (“white, bright”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”) (compare English yellow, Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Persian زر (zar, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Welsh gwelw (“pale”)).

gell

1. light brown

• gorm (“dark brown”)

Colors in Cornish · liwyow (layout · text)

gwynn	loos, glas	du
rudh; kogh	rudhvelyn; gell, gorm	melyn
	gwyrdh, glas
		glas
glasrudh, purpur	majenta; purpur, glasrudh	gwynnrudh, kigliw

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gell

1. Soft mutation of kell.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

From gellen.

gell (strong nominative masculine singular geller, comparative geller, superlative am gellsten)

1. (literary) shrill

Clipping of gelt es, from gelten (“to be valid”).

gell

1. (colloquial, regional, Southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria, South Tyrol, Liechtenstein, Alsace) emphasis and question marker particle; asks for confirmation; right?; eh?; isn't it, innit?

   Synonyms: oder, (Chiefly Northwestern Germany) ne, (Eastern Germany) wa; see also Thesaurus:nicht wahr

   Wir gehen, gell? ― We’re going, aren’t we?

   Du verstehst mich, gell? ― You understand me, right?

• gelle, gelt

• “gell (adjective)” in Duden online
• “gell (interjection)” in Duden online
• “gell” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

gell (strong)

1. first-person singular present indicative of gjalla

From Proto-Celtic *geldom (“pledge”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (compare Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”)).

• IPA^(key): /ɡʲel͈/

gell n

1. pledge, surety
2. hostage
3. stake, wager

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	gellN	gellN	gellL, gella
Vocative	gellN	gellN	gellL, gella
Accusative	gellN	gellN	gellL, gella
Genitive	gillL	gell	gellN
Dative	giullL	gellaib	gellaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• gellach
• gellaid
• forcell

• Middle Irish: gell
  • Irish: geall
  • Scottish Gaelic: geall
• ⇒ Middle Irish: gillán

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
gell	gell pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngell
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛɬ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɬ

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gell

1. Soft mutation of cell.

From Middle Welsh gell (“yellow”), from Proto-Celtic *gellos (“yellow”) or *gelos (“white”) (compare Old Irish gel (“white, fair, shining”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”) (compare English yellow, Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Persian زر (zar, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”)).

gell (feminine singular gell, plural gell, equative gelled, comparative gellach, superlative gellaf)

1. bay (colour)

• gellgi (“a Welsh staghound”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gell”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies