Noun: gaule
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | gaule |
| Plural f | gaules |
Sample Sentences
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Il a la belle gaule. (He's got a nice boner)
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J'ai toujours une de ces gaules au réveil. (I always have one of these erections when waking up.)
Nouns inflected like gaule
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle French gaule, gaulle, from Old French gaule, waulle (“long pole, rod”), from Frankish *walu (“stick”), from Proto-Germanic *waluz (“stick, root”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn, wind, roll”).
2. Cognate with Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌿𐍃 (walus, “staff, rod”), Old Norse valr (“round rod”), North Frisian waal (“rod, stick”), Old English walu (“ridge, bank, rib, comb of helmet, weal, mark of a blow”). More at wale, weal. See: Gothic Nouns '
𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌿𐍃', Old Norse Nouns '
valr', Old English Nouns '
walu'.
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