Noun: gesel
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
| Sg. | gesel |
| Pl. | gesels; geselen |
Sample Sentences
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De gevangene werd geslagen met een gesel. (The prisoner was flogged with a scourge.)
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Gesel Gods (Scourge of God)
Nouns inflected like gesel
busmeester,
scalar,
grondbeginsel,
comptoir,
moordwapen,
vluchtheuvel,
boetiek,
boutiek,
bestevader,
baaierd,
Assassijn,
spadassijn,
familiewapen,
alantswortel,
precursor,
veldteken,
processor,
aasvogel,
portier,
hogepriester, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch gêssle, gêsele. The atypical -s-, rather than -z-, points at Old Dutch *gēsl(a), where the -s- was directly followed by the -l-, instead of by a vowel, blocking the s → z sound change, from Proto-Germanic *gaisilaz, from *gaizaz (“spear”) + *-ilaz (suffix deriving names of tools). The loss of the middle syllable was a common change among the Germanic languages, and can also be seen in *karilaz → *karlaz (whence Charles). Cognate with German Geißel. See: German Nouns '
Geißel'.
Verbs referencing "gesel"
German Nouns
Geißel, Swedish Nouns
gissel.
Translations