gally

English

Etymology 1

Noun

gally (plural gallies)

1. Archaic form of galley.
   • 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 200:

     In the Year 1746, an Indian of Buenos Ayres having been condemned to the Gallies at Cadiz, proposed to the Governor to purchase his Liberty by exposing his Life at a public Festival.

Derived terms

• galligaskins

Etymology 2

From Middle English gally, from Old English gealliġ (“sour, sharp, bitter, sad”), equivalent to gall +‎ -y.

Adjective

gally (comparative more gally, superlative most gally)

1. Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXV:

     For by the Dart, which is likewise a pipe, is made a deep passage into the skin, and then by the anger of the Fly, is his gally poisonous liquor injected […].

Etymology 3

See gallow (transitive verb).

Verb

gally (third-person singular simple present gallies, present participle gallying, simple past and past participle gallied)

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) To frighten; to worry.
   • April 8 1700, Tom Brown, letter to Mr. Briscoe in Covent-Garden

     The next Day being Sunday, call'd by the Natives of this Country Maze Sunday, (and indeed not without some Reason, for the People look'd as if they were gallied) […]

Etymology 4

From gal +‎ -y.

Noun

gally (plural not attested)

1. diminutive of gal (“girl”)

Synonyms

• girlie

References

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

Anagrams

• gyall

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *golь, a noun formed from *golъ (“bare, leafless”). Compare Czech hůl (“stick”), Old East Slavic голь (golĭ, “twig”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɒjː]
• Rhymes: -ɒjː

Noun

gally (plural gallyak)

1. twig

   Holonyms: fa, bokor

   Coordinate terms: rügy, hajtás, vessző, ág, törzs

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	gally	gallyak
accusative	gallyat	gallyakat
dative	gallynak	gallyaknak
instrumental	gallyal	gallyakkal
causal-final	gallyért	gallyakért
translative	gallyá	gallyakká
terminative	gallyig	gallyakig
essive-formal	gallyként	gallyakként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	gallyban	gallyakban
superessive	gallyon	gallyakon
adessive	gallynál	gallyaknál
illative	gallyba	gallyakba
sublative	gallyra	gallyakra
allative	gallyhoz	gallyakhoz
elative	gallyból	gallyakból
delative	gallyról	gallyakról
ablative	gallytól	gallyaktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	gallyé	gallyaké
non-attributive possessive - plural	gallyéi	gallyakéi

Possessive forms of gally
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	gallyam	gallyaim
2nd person sing.	gallyad	gallyaid
3rd person sing.	gallya	gallyai
1st person plural	gallyunk	gallyaink
2nd person plural	gallyatok	gallyaitok
3rd person plural	gallyuk	gallyaik

See also

• gajra megy/vág (unrelated, though sometimes written gally(ra) due to an assumed relation)
• Appendix:Hungarian words with ly

Further reading

• gally in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• gally in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*golь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 16