Noun: gull
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | gull |
| Sg. Def. | gullet |
| Pl. Indef. | gull |
| Pl. Def. | gullen |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | gulls |
| Sg. Def. | gullets |
| Pl. Indef. | gulls |
| Pl. Def. | gullens |
Sample Sentences
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Har du silver har du gull, / har du kistorna full? (Do you have silver and gold, / are your treasure chests full? (song lyrics))
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Vill du vara dig själver huld, / du älska frihet mer än guld (translated to standard Swedish) (If you want to help yourself, you should love freedom more than gold) [Wilt thw wara tik sielffuir hull, / tw älska friiheet meer än gull (Old Swedish, poem by bishop Tomas, 1439)]
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mina små gull (my little darlings)
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Kom nu gullet, det är finfint väder ute (Come on baby, it's a perfect sunny day)
Nouns inflected like gull
fraktfartyg,
narkotikabeslag,
kombinationsfält,
urinrör,
civilutskott,
urklipp,
rumpknull,
symtom,
synfel,
blogginlägg,
system,
syskon,
bubbelbad,
sexköp,
sekret,
seldon,
urspråk,
samråd,
samtal,
samlag, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From gull, gul, gol, from Old Norse gull (compare Runic Old East Norse: ᚴᚢᛚ (kul /ḡull/), ᛁᚢᛚ (iul /jull/)), from Proto-Germanic *gulþą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Compare alternative form Old Swedish gold, guldh, gwldh, Old Norse *gulð.
2. Cognate to Swedish gul (“yellow”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
gull'.
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