geal

From Middle English gelen, from Old French geler, from Latin gelāre, from gelu. See gelid. Scots jeel, geal.

• enPR: jēl', IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

geal (third-person singular simple present geals, present participle gealing, simple past and past participle gealed)

1. (obsolete or Scotland) To congeal.

• “geal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Gael, Gale, Lega, egal, gale, lage, leag

From Old Irish gel,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *gelos (“yellow, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”).

• IPA^(key): /ɟal̪ˠ/^[2], /ɟalˠ/^[3]

geal m (genitive singular gil)

1. white, bright(ness)

geal (genitive singular masculine gil, genitive singular feminine gile, plural geala, comparative gile)

1. white

   Synonym: bán

   Tá a craiceann chomh geal le sneachta.

   Her skin is as white as snow.

2. bright
3. clear
4. (literary) fallow
5. (figuratively) bright, pure; glad, happy; dear, beloved, fond

• 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:

  Tháinic sé colmáin gheala isteach ar an dorus, ⁊ shuidh siad ar philéir go robh an tAifrionn thart, ⁊ annsin chuaidh siad amach ar ais.

  Six white doves came into the door, and they sat upon a pillar till Mass was over, and then they went back out.

• 2015 [2014], Will Collins, translated by Proinsias Mac a' Bhaird, edited by Maura McHugh, Amhrán na Mara (fiction; paperback), Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Howth, Dublin: Cartoon Saloon; Coiscéim, translation of Song of the Sea (in English), →ISBN, page 1:

  Thuas i dteach an tsolais, faoi réaltaí geala, canann Bronach Amhrán na Mara dá mac Ben atá cúig bliana d'aois.

  [original: Up in the lighthouse, under bright stars, Bronach sings the Song of the Sea to her five-year-old son, Ben.]

geal (present analytic gealann, future analytic gealfaidh, verbal noun gealadh, past participle gealta)

1. (ambitransitive) to whiten, brighten; clear

   Gheal an spéir.

   The sky cleared.

2. (ambitransitive, figurative) to make or become glad, happy, fond

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “geal”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 523; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “geal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Old Irish gel,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *gelos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to shine”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡ̊ʲal̪ˠ/^[2][3], [ɡ̊ʲjɑl̪ˠ]^[4]

geal (comparative gile)

1. white, bright, pale

   Mas e 'n t-iasg do choinnlean geala, mas e na ròin do luchd-faire... ― If the fish are thy candles bright, if the seals are thy watchmen...

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