gammel

See also: Gammel

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse gamall (“old”), from Proto-Germanic *gamalaz, maybe related to Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéy-mn̥- (“winter”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡaməl/, [ˈɡ̊ɑml̩]

Adjective

gammel (neuter gammelt, plural and definite singular attributive gamle, comparative ældre, superlative (predicative) ældst, superlative (attributive) ældste)

  1. old (of an object, concept, etc: having existed for a relatively long period of time)

Descendants
  • Informal Northern High German, Low German: gammeln (to rot), gammelig (rotten)

Dutch

Pronunciation
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Adjective

gammel (comparative gammeler, superlative gammelst)

  1. shaky (unsound)

Inflection
Inflection of gammel
uninflected gammel
inflected gammele
comparative gammeler
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial gammelgammelerhet gammelst
het gammelste
indefinite m./f. sing. gammelegammeleregammelste
n. sing. gammelgammelergammelste
plural gammelegammeleregammelste
definite gammelegammeleregammelste
partitive gammelsgammelers—

German

Verb

gammel

  1. First-person singular present of gammeln.
  2. Imperative singular of gammeln.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse gamall; comparative and superlative froms from Old Norse ellri and Old Norse ellztr.

Adjective

gammel (neuter singular gammelt, definite singular and plural gamle, comparative eldre, indefinite superlative eldst, definite superlative eldste)

  1. old (of an object, concept, etc: having existed for a relatively long period of time)
  2. old (of a specified age)
    fem år gammel - five years old

Derived terms

References
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