galwes

Middle English

Alternative forms
  • galwe, galowe, galewes

Etymology

From Old English ġealga, galga, from Proto-Germanic *galgô.

Noun

galwes

  1. gallows
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Descendants

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for galwes in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Welsh

Alternative forms
  • galwais

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡalwɛs/

Verb

galwes

  1. (colloquial) first-person singular preterite of galw

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
galwes alwes ngalwes unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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