gallet

gallet (plural gallets)

1. (especially in plural) A splinter of stone inserted into the wet mortar of masonry.

• galet

gallet (third-person singular simple present gallets, present participle galleting or galletting, simple past and past participle galleted or galletted)

1. To use this masonry technique.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ɡəˈʎɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ɡəˈʎət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡaˈʎet]

From gall (“rooster”) +‎ -et.

gallet m (plural gallets)

1. diminutive of gall (“rooster”)
2. weather vane
3. popcorn

   Synonyms: crispeta, roseta

4. trigger

   Synonym: disparador

5. boarfish (Capros aper)
6. peacock blenny (Salaria pavo)

   Synonyms: gallerbo, bavosa paona

7. common cockle (type of clam)

   Synonym: catxel

• escopinya de gallet

From gall (“segment of a fruit”) +‎ -et.

gallet m (plural gallets)

1. (anatomy, dialectal) uvula

   Synonyms: campaneta, úvula

2. segment (of a fruit)

• “gallet”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Proto-Samic *këlëjëtēk, ultimately from Proto-Finno-Ugric *külä (“dwelling”), whence also gilli (“village”). Contains the suffix -et. Compare Finnish kyläillä (“to visit”).

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈkalːleh(t)/

galˈlet

1. to visit

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland