Gerald

== English == === Etymology === From Old French, ultimately from Frankish *gaiʀ (“spear”) + *wald (“might, power”). The name was brought to England by the Normans. It survived in Ireland, and was revived in the 19th century. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛɹəld/ Rhymes: -ɛɹəld === Proper noun === Gerald (countable and uncountable, plural Geralds) A male given name from the Germanic languages. 1998 Barbara Vine ( Ruth Rendell ): The Chimney Sweeper's Boy. →ISBN page 168: "You're saying my father's favourite names were Gerald and Candless?" "Not likely, is it? But Gerald must have been a favourite name with Kathleen and George Candless or they wouldn't have called their son by it?" A surname. A placename A village in the Rural Municipality of Spy Hill No. 152, Saskatchewan, Canada. A place in the United States. A former unincorporated community in Dale County, Alabama. An unincorporated community in Champaign County, Illinois. An unincorporated community in Tobin Township, Perry County, Indiana. A small city in Franklin County, Missouri. An unincorporated community in Henry County, Ohio. The former name of Ponder, a town in Texas. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== (variants): Jerald, Jerrold, Garrett (pet forms): Gerry, Jerry (female given names): Geraldine, Jerilyn (surnames): Fitzgerald, Giraud, Giroud, Geralds, Geraldson ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Gardel, Legrad, dargle, glared, redgal == Albanian == === Proper noun === Gerald m a male given name ==== Declension ==== == German == === Pronunciation === === Proper noun === Gerald m (proper noun, strong, genitive Geralds) a male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Gerald ==== Related terms ==== Gerold Gerwald