galge

See also: Galge

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ギャルゲー (gyarugē), a shortening of ギャルゲーム (gyaru gēmu), a wasei-eigo derived from English gal + game.

Noun

galge (plural galge)

1. (video games) A video game centered around interactions with attractive anime-style girls.

Afrikaans

Noun

galge

1. plural of galg

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse galgi, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaljə/, [ˈɡ̊aljə]

Noun

galge c (singular definite galgen, plural indefinite galger)

1. gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)
2. gibbet (an upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display)

Inflection

Declension of galge

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	galge	galgen	galger	galgerne
genitive	galges	galgens	galgers	galgernes

See also

• galge on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈkalːke/

Verb

galge

1. inflection of galgat:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse galgi.

Noun

galge m (definite singular galgen, indefinite plural galger, definite plural galgene)

1. gallows (structure for hanging condemned prisoners)
2. a gantry

References

• “galge” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse galgi.

Noun

galge m (definite singular galgen, indefinite plural galgar, definite plural galgane)

1. gallows (structure for hanging condemned prisoners)
2. a gantry

References

• “galge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Galgen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡâːlɡe/
• Hyphenation: gal‧ge

Noun

gȃlge f pl (Cyrillic spelling га̑лге)

1. (Kajkavian, plural only) gallows
   • 1936, Miroslav Krleža, “Galženjačka”, in The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh:

     Z tega pekla ni nazaj,
     bogcu galge, grofu raj,
     čerleni maj, kervavi maj.

     From this hell there is no going back:
     gallows for the poor man, paradise for the Count,
     a scarlet May, a bloody May.

Swedish

galge, as in coat hanger

Etymology

From Old Swedish galghe, from Old Norse galgi, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ɡaljɛ/

Noun

galge c

1. a gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)
2. a coat hanger

   Synonym: klädhängare

Declension

Declension of galge

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	galge	galges
	definite	galgen	galgens
plural	indefinite	galgar	galgars
	definite	galgarna	galgarnas

Derived terms

• galgbacke (gallows as a location)
• galgenfrist
• galgfysionomi
• galgfågel
• galghumor
• galghumorist
• galghumoristisk
• klädgalge
• trägalge

References

• galge in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• galge in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• galge in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• galge in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)