gallows

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging.
2. (colloquial, obsolete) A wretch who deserves to be hanged.
3. (obsolete) The rest for the tympan when raised.
4. (colloquial, obsolete) Suspenders; braces.
5. Any contrivance with posts and crossbeam for suspending objects.
6. The main frame of a beam engine.

Adv

Utterly; very.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of gallow

Conceptes

forca

Sinònims

gibbet

scaffold

cross

frame

framing

gallows-bird

gallows-tree

halter

hanging

noose

staging

suspenders

torture chamber

tree

🌳

gallows tree

gallous

gallows frame

boom

💥

structural frame

braces

Traduccions

Galgen

forca

potence

gibet

horca

patibolo

αγχόνη

κρεμάλα

forca

galg

darağacı

patíbulo

مشنقة

gabalus

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈɡæləʊz/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: galwes

Heretat de anglès antic: gealga

Cognat amb frisó occidental: galge

Cognat amb neerlandès: galg

Cognat amb alemany: Galgen

Cognat amb danès: galge

Cognat amb islandès: gálgi

In summary

From Middle English galwes, galewes, plural of galwe, galowe, from Old English galga, gealga, from Proto-West Germanic *galgō, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”). The plural construction probably refers to the vertical and horizontal beams.
Compare West Frisian galge, Dutch galg, German Galgen, Danish galge, Icelandic gálgi.
For the pronunciation /ˈɡæləs/, compare bellows, bodice.