What is the name meaning of GAIL. Phrases containing GAIL
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GAIL
Female
English
Short form of English Abigail, GAIL means "father rejoices."
Girl/Female
Hebrew American English
Father rejoiced, or father's joy. Gives joy. The intelligent, beautiful Abigail was Old Testament...
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English (of Norman origin) and French
English (of Norman origin) and French : nickname from French
gaillard ‘strong’, ‘robust’, possibly from Gaulish galia
‘strength’ + the suffix -ard.English (of Norman origin) and French : from Old French
gaile ‘cheerful’ (of Germanic origin; compare Gale 1) +
the pejorative suffix -ard.English (of Norman origin) and French : Gaillard was brought to America by the Huguenots, and is sometimes
Americanized as
Girl/Female
English
Joyful. Abbreviation of Abigail. Gael is a term for descendants of the ancient Celts in Scotland;...
Boy/Male
British, English, Gaelic, Irish
Cheerful; Happy; Foreigner; Stranger
Girl/Female
American, British, Christian, English, Hebrew, Indian, Jamaican
Lively; My Father is Joy; God is Joy; Father in Rejoicing; Abigail
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Gail, GAYLE means "father rejoices."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a cheerful or boisterous person, from Middle English ga(i)le ‘jovial’, ‘rowdy’, from Old English gÄl ‘light’, ‘pleasant’, ‘merry’, which was reinforced in Middle English by Old French gail. Compare Gail 2.English : from a Germanic personal name introduced into England from France by the Normans in the form Gal(on). Two originally distinct names have fallen together in this form: one was a short form of compound names with the first element gail ‘cheerful’, ‘joyous’. Compare Gaillard, the other was a byname from the element walh ‘stranger’, ‘foreigner’.English : metonymic occupational name for a jailer, topographic name for someone who lived near the local jail, or nickname for a jailbird, from Old Northern French gaiole ‘jail’ (Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of classical Latin cavea ‘cage’).Portuguese : from galé ‘galleon’, ‘war ship’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a shipwright or a mariner.Slovenian : from a pet form of the personal name Gal (Latin Gallus), formed with the suffix -e, usually denoting a young person.
Boy/Male
Irish
Stranger.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English, French, Gaelic, Irish, Jamaican
Lively; Cheerful; Happy; Foreigner; God is Joy; Father in Rejoicing
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Staffordshire named Gailey, from Old English gagel ‘bog-myrtle’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.In some instances, an altered spelling of South German Gailer (variant of Geiler) or of Swiss Gälli (see Gall).
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Gale, GAIL means "calm, tranquil."
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English
English : variant spelling of Gales.
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Dutch
Dutch : perhaps a patronymic from the Germanic personal name Gailo; otherwise, a variant of Gillis.English and Scottish : possibly, as Black proposes, a variant of Giles.
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English and French
English and French : from a medieval personal name of which the original form was Latin Aegidius (from Greek aigidion ‘kid’, ‘young goat’). This was the name of a 7th-century Provençal hermit, whose cult popularized the name in a variety of more or less mutilated forms: Gidi and Gidy in southern France, Gil(l)i in the area of the Alpes-Maritimes, and Gil(l)e elsewhere. This last form was taken over to England by the Normans, but by the 12th century it was being confused with the Germanic names Gisel, a short form of Gilbert, and Gilo, which is from Gail (as in Gaillard).Irish : adopted as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Glaisne, a County Louth name, based on glas ‘green’, ‘blue’, ‘gray’.
Boy/Male
French, German
Lively; High-spirited
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English
English : variant spelling of Gale.French : nickname from Old French gail ‘cheerful’, ‘jolly’.German : variant of Geil.
Female
English
Elaborated form of English Gail, GAILA means "father rejoices."
Boy/Male
English American
Lively.
Girl/Female
American, British, Christian, English, Hebrew
Joyful; My Father is Joyful; Father of Exaltation; Father Rejoices
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a.
A gay, lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde.
n.
A lively French and Italian dance.
adv.
Merrily; showily. See gaily.
a.
Gay; brisk; merry; galliard.
adv.
In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; flippantly.
n.
A jailer.