gille

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Pronunciation

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Verb

gille

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of gillen

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish gilla; compare English child, Old English ċild. Zimmer thinks it is borrowed from Old Norse gildr (“stout, brawny, of full worth”); compare English guild, Old English gild (“payment”) (see geall), gilda (“fellow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲiʎə/

Noun

gille m (genitive singular gille, plural gillean)

1. (dated) servant, follower
2. boy, lad, youth (male aged from the toddler years to about the middle twenties)
3. man, boy (as a familiar address for a male of any age)

Usage notes

• The regular vocative a ghille is often, even in writing, shortened to 'ille.

Declension

Declension of gille (class IId masculine noun)

Indefinite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gille	gillean
Genitive	gille	ghillean
Dative	gille	gillean
Definite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	(an) ghille	(na) gillean
Genitive	(a') gille	(nan) gillean
Dative	(a') ghille	(na) gillean
Vocative	ghille	ghillean

Synonyms

• balach
• laochan (especially in vocative)

Hyponyms

• balachan (“little boy”)
• balachan-sgoile (“schoolboy”)
• brogach (“sturdy little boy”)
• proitseach (“stripling”)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• gille-coise (“valet”)
• gille-comhailteachd (“best man”)
• gille-cruidh (“cowboy”)
• gille-cupa
• gille-feadaig (“dunlin”)
• gille-frithealaidh (“waiter; page”)
• gille-gach-gnothaich (“factotum”)
• gille-gnothaich (“errand boy”)
• gille-mo-ghnothaich (“lively, enterprising, dependable young man”)
• gille-mirein (“puppet”)
• gille-mùchain (“chimney sweep”)
• gille-oifis (“office boy”)
• gille-ruadh (“parr”)
• gille-tòine (“faggot, queen”)
• leanabh gille (“baby boy”)
• seana-ghille (“bachelor”)

Mutation

Mutation of gille

radical	lenition
gille	ghille

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse gildi.

Noun

gille n

1. feast
2. guild

Declension

Declension of gille

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	gille	gilles
	definite	gillet	gillets
plural	indefinite	gillen	gillens
	definite	gillena	gillenas

Derived terms

• ålagille

See also

• skrå

Further reading

• gille in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• gille in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)