galge

Borrowed from Japanese ギャルゲー (gyaruge), a shortening of ギャルゲーム (gyaru gēmu), itself from English gal game.

galge (plural galge)

1. (video games) A video game centered around interactions with attractive anime-style girls.

From Old Norse galgi, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaljə/, [ˈɡ̊aljə]

galge c (singular definite galgen, plural indefinite galger)

1. gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)
2. gibbet (an upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display)

• galge on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈkalːke/

galge

1. inflection of galgat:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

From Old Norse galgi.

galge m (definite singular galgen, indefinite plural galger, definite plural galgene)

1. gallows (structure for hanging condemned prisoners)
2. a gantry

• “galge” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse galgi

galge m (definite singular galgen, indefinite plural galgar, definite plural galgane)

1. gallows (structure for hanging condemned prisoners)
2. a gantry

• “galge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From German Galgen.

• IPA^(key): /ɡâːlɡe/
• Hyphenation: gal‧ge

gȃlge f (Cyrillic spelling га̑лге)

1. (Kajkavian) gallows

From Old Swedish galghe, from Old Norse galgi, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”).

galge c

1. gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)
2. coat hanger

• (coat hanger): klädhängare