Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls. · To staff with or as a girl or girls.
From Middle English gerle, girle, gyrle (“young person (boy or girl)”), perhaps from Old English *gyrele, from Proto-West Germanic *gurilā, from a zero-grade diminutive of *gaurā (“young child”) + *-ilā. Ultimately of unknown origin. Doublet of gal/gyal and gyaru. Cognates Cognate with Yola gurl (“child, girl”), German Gör, Göre (“brat, cheeky young child”), Low German Gör (“child”).
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- Inherited-form mentiongerleenm
- Inherited-form mention*gyreleang
- Inherited-form mention*gurilāgmw-pro
- Word-formation component*gaurāgmw-pro · young child
- Word-formation component*-ilāgmw-pro
- Doublet mentiongal/gyalen
- Doublet mentiongyaruen
- Cognate mentiongurlyol · child, girl
- Cognate mentionGörde
- Cognate mentionGörnds · child
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