Galle

Galle

1. A city in Sri Lanka.

• Legal, egall, legal

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡalə/
• Rhymes: -alə

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From Middle High German galle, from Old High German galla, from Proto-West Germanic *gallā, from Proto-Germanic *gallǭ. Cognate with English gall.

Galle f (genitive Galle, plural Gallen)

1. bile, gall
2. (colloquial) gallbladder

• gallen
• gallig

Inherited from Middle High German galle, from Proto-West Germanic *gallō, from Proto-Germanic *gallô. Cognate with Old English ġealla and Icelandic galli.

Galle f (genitive Galle, plural Gallen)

1. (veterinary medicine) abnormal swelling
2. (phytopathology) gall (like that caused by the gall wasp)

• “Galle#1” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Galle#2” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Galle” in Duden online
• “Galle” in Duden online

Galle

1. vocative masculine singular of Gallus

From Old Frisian *galle, from Proto-West Germanic *gallā, from Proto-Germanic *gallǭ.

Galle f

1. gall
2. bile