gaillard

Syllable Decomposition

gaillard

it cannot be seen as gay and -ard, because it would require the insertion of an infix -ill-: gai-ill-ard. from a Gaulish root gall-, "strong, strength" related to Breton galloud ("power"), Welsh gallu ("power"), Latin gallus ("Gaul", etymologically: "strong man"). for the evolution of the meaning of "strong" to "ribald, lascivious", see Gaulish.

Definitions

marine

Feminine

gaillarde

Plural

gaillards

Translations

  • germangerman:Alpha-Tier
  • englishenglish:aftcastle
  • spanishspanish:castillo

See also

Gaillard (pn.)