galge

Borrowed from Japanese ギャルゲー (gyarugē), a shortening of ギャルゲーム (gyaru gēmu), a wasei-eigo derived from English gal + game.

galge (plural galge)

1. (video games) A video game centered around interactions with attractive anime-style girls.

galge

1. plural of galg

From Old Norse galgi, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaljə/, [ˈɡ̊aljə]

galge c (singular definite galgen, plural indefinite galger)

1. gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)
2. gibbet (an upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display)

• galge on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈkalːke/

galge

1. inflection of galgat:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

From Old Norse galgi.

galge m (definite singular galgen, indefinite plural galger, definite plural galgene)

1. gallows (structure for hanging condemned prisoners)
2. a gantry

• “galge” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse galgi.

galge m (definite singular galgen, indefinite plural galgar, definite plural galgane)

1. gallows (structure for hanging condemned prisoners)
2. a gantry

• “galge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from German Galgen.

• IPA^(key): /ɡâːlɡe/
• Hyphenation: gal‧ge

gȃlge f pl (Cyrillic spelling га̑лге)

1. (Kajkavian, plural only) gallows
   • 1936, Miroslav Krleža, “Galženjačka”, in The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh:

     Z tega pekla ni nazaj,
     bogcu galge, grofu raj,
     čerleni maj, kervavi maj.

     From this hell there is no going back:
     gallows for the poor man, paradise for the Count,
     a scarlet May, a bloody May.

From Old Swedish galghe, from Old Norse galgi, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”).

• IPA^(key): /²ɡaljɛ/

galge c

1. a gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)
2. a coat hanger

• (coat hanger): klädhängare

• galgbacke (gallows as a location)

• galge in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• galge in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• galge in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)