gally
English
Noun
gally (plural gallies)
- 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.
- 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 200:
Compounds
- galligaskins
Etymology 2
From gall + -y.
Adjective
gally (comparative more gally, superlative most gally)
- Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, 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 […].
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXV:
Etymology 3
See gallow (transitive verb).
Verb
gally (third-person singular simple present gallies, present participle gallying, simple past and past participle gallied)
- (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) […]
- April 8 1700, Tom Brown, letter to Mr. Briscoe in Covent-Garden
Etymology 4
gal + -y
Noun
gally (plural not attested)
- Diminutive of gal (“girl”)
Synonyms
- girlie
References
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gally in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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)
- twig
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
- 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’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*golь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 16