gâdila

Romanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably ultimately from Ottoman Turkish قیدیقلانمق (gıdıklanmak). Compare Aromanian gadil, Bulgarian gădeličkam, Albanian gudulis. Other theories also existed, including the Latin catulīre, or *cattellāre, a derivation from the aforementioned Bulgarian, or a Dacian substratum word of Indo-European origin, compare *geid- (tickle).[1]

Verb

a gâdila (third-person singular present gâdilă, past participle gâdilat, third-person subjunctive gâdile) 1st conjugation

  1. to tickle

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ gâdila”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 20042025