gille

== Dutch == === Pronunciation === === Verb === gille (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 gille, plural gillean, vocative 'ille) (dated) servant, follower boy, lad, youth (male aged from the toddler years to about the middle twenties) man, boy (as a familiar address for a male of any age) (Wester Ross) unmarried man of any age, bachelor Antonym: duine (dialectally) ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== balach laochan (especially in vocative) ==== Hyponyms ==== balachan (“little boy”) balachan-sgoile (“schoolboy”) brogach (“sturdy little boy”) proitseach (“stripling”) ==== Derived terms ==== === Mutation === == Swedish == === Etymology === From Old Norse gildi. === Noun === gille n feast guild ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== gillestuga ålagille ==== See also ==== skrå === Further reading === “gille”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) gille in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)