English
gayelle
Gayelle comes from Spanish gallera ‘cockfight arena’, from gallo ‘rooster, cock’, and ultimately from Latin gallus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgallus‘a cock, rooster, cockerel’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentgallo‘rooster, cock’
- Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentgallera‘cockfight arena’
- Englishearliest quotation 1975gayelle
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgallus‘a cock, rooster, cockerel’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentgallo‘rooster, cock’
- Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentgallera‘cockfight arena’
- Englishearliest quotation 1975gayelle
Earliest quotation: 1975, Quincy Troupe, Rainer Schulte: “And that time Bolo is coming through the village…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gelH- ‘naked’
through Latin gallus ‘a cock, rooster, cockerel’
Today it means
noun An informal stage or arena, as for cockfighting or stickfighting.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin gallus / gayelle