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gale

Pronunciation: /ɡaːlə/

“gale” is a Danish word. Its 2 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to crow (mostly of the sound of the cock)
  2. to scream

Etymology

From Old Norse gala (“to sing, crow, chant”), from Proto-Germanic *galaną, cognate with Norwegian gale, Swedish gala, English gale.

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