gilja

Garo

Noun

gilja

  1. church

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gailijaną (“to make glad”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gailjan, “to make glad”).

Verb

gilja

  1. to seduce, beguile

Descendants

  • Norwegian Bokmål: gilje
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gilje, gilja
  • Swedish: gilja

Further reading

  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “gilja”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press

Zou

Noun

gilja

  1. hip

References

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