gale
/ɡeɪl/
- n.
- 狂风，大风，定期租金
中文释义来自 ECDICT
gale1词源 1
词源链
- 古英语Old English约 450–1150 年
galan‘to sing, enchant, call, cry, scream; sing charms, practice incantation’
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- 英语English
gale
词源说明
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.