gilja

Garo

Noun

gilja

1. church

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gailijaną (“to make glad”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gailjan, “to make glad”).

Verb

gilja

1. to seduce, beguile

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: gilje
• Norwegian Bokmål: gilje, gilja
• Swedish: gilja

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “gilja”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press