gallows

Senso (Inglese)

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

Concetti

forca

patibolo

impiccagione

patibulo

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

Galgen

gibet

potence

horca

αγχόνη

forca

κρεμάλα

galg

darağacı

patíbulo

مشنقة

cadafalso

gabalus

patibulum

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈɡæləʊz/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: galwes

Ereditato da inglese antico: gealga

Affine frisone occidentale: galge

Affine olandese: galg

Affine tedesco: Galgen

Affine danese: galge

Affine islandese: 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.