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English

Noun

gell (plural gells)

1. Pronunciation spelling of girl.
   • 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.

2. Alternative form of gill (a leech)

Breton

Noun

gell

1. Soft mutation of kell.

Adjective

gell

1. brown

See also

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?/

Etymology 1

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 *??elh?- (“gleam, yellow”) (compare English yellow, Ancient Greek ?????? (khl?rós, “light green”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Persian ??? (zar, “yellow”), Sanskrit ??? (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Welsh gwelw (“pale”))).

Adjective

gell

1. light brown

See also

Related terms

• gorm (“dark brown”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

gell

1. Soft mutation of kell.

Mutation

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From gellen.

Adjective

gell (comparative geller, superlative am gellsten)

1. (literary) shrill

Declension

Etymology 2

From gelten (“to be valid”).

Adverb

gell

1. (colloquial, regional, southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria) right?; is it?; is it not?

   Synonyms: ne, nicht, nicht wahr, oder, wa

Further reading

• “gell (adjective)” in Duden online
• “gell (interjection)” in Duden online

Icelandic

Verb

gell (strong)

1. first-person singular present indicative of gjalla

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *geldom (“pledge”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *g?eld?- (compare Proto-Germanic *geldan? (“to pay”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??el?/

Noun

gell n

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

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Mutation

Further reading

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

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

gell

1. Soft mutation of cell.

Mutation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French émulsion, from New Latin ?mulsi?, ?mulsi?nis, based on Latin ?mulge? (“I milk out, extract”).

Noun

emulsion (plural emulsions)

1. A stable suspension of small droplets of one liquid in another with which it is immiscible.

2. (chemistry) A colloid in which both phases are liquid.
3. (photography) The coating of photosensitive silver halide grains in a thin gelatine layer on a photographic film.

Derived terms

• emulsify
• solid emulsion

Related terms

• emulsifier

Translations

Further reading

• emulsion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• moulines

Finnish

Noun

emulsion

1. Genitive singular form of emulsio.