Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals. · A gill slit or gill cover. · One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs. · The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it. · To catch (a fish) in a gillnet. · To be or become entangled in a gillnet.
From Middle English gille, gylle (“gill”), of North Germanic origin, akin to Danish gælle, Swedish gäl, Norwegian gjelle, and further to Old Norse gjǫlnar (“lips”), which also may have had the meaning of "gills" (based on Old Danish fiskegæln (“gills”)). The Old Norse word has been suggested as deriving from Proto-Germanic *gelunō (“jaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel-, which would make it root-cognate to Ancient Greek χελύνη (khelúnē, “lip, jaw”), χεῖλος (kheîlos, “lip”). Displaced native Old English ċīe.
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