What is the name meaning of GAIL. Phrases containing GAIL
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GAIL
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Irish
Stranger.
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English
English : variant spelling of Gale.French : nickname from Old French gail ‘cheerful’, ‘jolly’.German : variant of Geil.
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Gale, GAIL means "calm, tranquil."
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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
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).
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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.
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American, British, Christian, English, Hebrew, Indian, Jamaican
Lively; My Father is Joy; God is Joy; Father in Rejoicing; Abigail
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English American
Lively.
Girl/Female
English
Joyful. Abbreviation of Abigail. Gael is a term for descendants of the ancient Celts in Scotland;...
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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
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Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English, French, Gaelic, Irish, Jamaican
Lively; Cheerful; Happy; Foreigner; God is Joy; Father in Rejoicing
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Gail, GAYLE means "father rejoices."
Girl/Female
American, British, Christian, English, Hebrew
Joyful; My Father is Joyful; Father of Exaltation; Father Rejoices
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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’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Gales.
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Hebrew American English
Father rejoiced, or father's joy. Gives joy. The intelligent, beautiful Abigail was Old Testament...
Female
English
Elaborated form of English Gail, GAILA means "father rejoices."
Boy/Male
British, English, Gaelic, Irish
Cheerful; Happy; Foreigner; Stranger
Boy/Male
French, German
Lively; High-spirited
Female
English
Short form of English Abigail, GAIL means "father rejoices."
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adv.
In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; flippantly.
a.
A gay, lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde.
n.
A lively French and Italian dance.
adv.
Merrily; showily. See gaily.
n.
A jailer.
a.
Gay; brisk; merry; galliard.