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Gei  ,, ‘fiddle, violin,’ from the early  gîge, ; corresponding to  ghighe,  gígja; in  fidula,  fiddle; see. The word, like, found its way into ;   giga,  gigue (whence further  jig). There is no suspicion that gîge was borrowed; it is, however, scarcely allied  (pre- ghîkă) to  žica, ‘thread’ (akin to  gijá, ‘thread’?).  ,, ‘rank, wanton, obscene, lewd,’ from and  geil, ‘of savage strength, wanton, exuberant, merry, joyous’; for the change of meaning on the transition from  to. The primary meaning. ‘unrestrained, joyous,’ follows from gailjan, ‘to rejoice’;   gêl,  geil,  gâl. To the cognates  gailùs, ‘passionate, furious, sharp, painful, sympathetic,’ and gailěti-s, ‘to injure’;  zělu (from gailo), ‘violent,’  zėlo, ‘very’ In the compound  appears the  noun geil, geile, ‘testicle.’   (1.), and, ‘hostage,’ from  gisel,  gisal, , , ‘prisoner of war, person held in security’; corresponding to  gîsel,  gîsl,. To connect it with (2.),, as if ‘hostage’ were  ‘one who is scourged,’ is impossible. It is, probably, most closely allied to the  giall (for *gísal).

' (2.), ‘scourge, whip,’ from the  geisel),  geisala, geisla, ; akin to  geisl, geisle, , ‘pole used by persons walking in snow-shoes.’ The stem gais- is connected with the  term gaiza-, ‘spear’ (see ). Hence ‘pole, staff,’ must be accepted as the  meaning; the second component is  walus, ‘staff,’ so that  geis-ala stands for *geis-wala, just as  wurzala for  wyrt-walu (see under ).   ', , ‘spirit, genius, spectre,’ from  and  geist, , ‘spirit (in contrast to body), supernatural being’; corresponding to  gêst,  geist,  gâst (gœ̂st),  ghost; common to  in the same sense, but in  ahma (see ). The  meaning of the word (‘agitation’?) is not quite certain; yet  geisa, ‘to rage’ (of fire, passion), and  us-gaisjan, ‘to enrage,’ seem to be allied. Respecting the dental suffix of the   (pre- ghaisdos), note  the  root hîḍ (from hizd), ‘to get angry,’ hêḍas, , ‘anger,’ to which  aghast also corresponds.   ,, ‘goat, roe,’ from the  and  geiȥ, f,; corresponding to  gaits,  geit,  gât,  goat,  geit; also a   gaitein,  gœ̂ten,  geizzîn, , ‘kid’ (see ). Primit. allied to haedus from older ghaido-s (see  and ). In common with, has a different word for ;   hoekijn,  hêcen, ‘kid,’ akin to  koza, ‘goat.’   ,, ‘avarice,’ allied to , gîtsen (gîzen), beside which  gîten, ‘to be greedy, covetous, or avaricious’ occurs;   gîtsian, ‘to be covetous.’ The term for  in  and  was gît, ‘greediness, covetousness, avarice,’ for ,  gîtec,  gîtag, ‘greedy, covetous, avaricious’; respecting the derivation of  from , see ,. Akin to gaidw,, ‘want.’ With the  root gaid, gī̆d (Aryan ghaidh), are connected  geidżiù (geísti), ‘to desire,’  židą, žĭdati, ‘to expect.’   ,, ‘giblets; frill, ruffle,’ from gekrœse, , ‘the small intestine,’ also the variant krœse,  *chrôsi; akin to  kroes, kroost, ‘giblets of ducks and geese.’ All the cognates are probably connected with.   ,, ‘feast, banquet, drinking bout,’ first occurs in early , allied to. Scarcely derived from the ancient (banquets); but just as  gabaur is  ‘that which is laid together,’ and then ‘picnic, feasting’ (from baíran, ‘to carry,’ see ), so  is  ‘that which is laid together,’ and then ‘feasting’;.   , ‘railing, banister, from the  late  gelender (15th ), allied to  lander, ‘stake, fence,’ which may be regarded as a nasalised variant of  ( laþ-). <section end="Geländer" /> <section begin="Gelaß" /> , and, ‘relics, heritage,’ from  gelœȥe, , ‘settlement, mode of settlement,’ allied to gelâȥen, ‘to settle.’ <section end="Gelaß" /> ,, ‘yellow,’ from the  gël,  gëlo ( gëlwes); corresponding to  gëlo,  geel,  geolo,  yellow ( gulr). The common West gelwa-, from pre- ghelwo-, is  allied to  helvus, ‘greyish yellow’; the Aryan root ghel appears also in