• Original language: French
  • Original form and meaning: gelée - 1. frost, freeze; 2. jelly, aspic


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
Catalan ... ... '...' '...' ...
Croatian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Czech želé ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
Danish gelé ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
Dutch gelei ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
English jelly 14c;

slang meaning: 20c

'meaning 2;

and also: a) a plastic sandal or shoe; b) slang "vagina, sexual intercourse"'

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Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French ... ... '...' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German Gelée ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
Hungarian zselé ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian gelatina ... 'meaning2' '...' ...
Latvian želeja ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
Lithuanian želė ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian gelé ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
Polish galareta ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
Portuguese geleia ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak želé ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
Slovenian žele ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
Spanish gelatina ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
Swedish gelé ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...

Annotations edit

Etymology: from OF gelée "a frost, jelly", fem. pp. of geler "congeal", from L gelare "to freeze", from gelu "frost".

Jellyfish as the popular name of the medusa and similar sea-creatures is from 1841. Jellybean first attested 1908. Jellyroll "cylindrical cake containing jelly or jam" is from 1895; as slang for "vagina, sexual intercourse" it dates from 1914.


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Information on Other Languages edit

meaning 2:

Estonian: tarretis

Finnish: hyytelö