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Giles
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giles
English
Etymology
Medieval English form of en fro - saints' name fro Giles, modern fr Gilles, an altered form of en la Aegīdius, from en grc Αἰγίδιος, derivative of grc αἰγίδιον kid, young goat.
Pronunciation
en /d͡ʒaɪlz/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Giles.wav Southern England
en aɪlz 1
Proper noun
en male Ancient Greek.
en Vanessa Potter My sudden synesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colors w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/10/health/sudden-synesthesia-blind-hearing-color-partner 2017-10-10 Daniel Hajas is a physics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16. He first heard about Giles and the SSDs when Giles was looking for blind students to test the devices. https://web.archive.org/web/20250820071547/https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/10/health/sudden-synesthesia-blind-hearing-color-partner
en patronymics.
en ghost town co/Wayne County s/Utah c/USA.
en ucomm co/Kanawha County s/West Virginia c/USA.
Derived terms
en Brough with St Giles Chalfont St Giles Farmer Giles Giles County Gilson Saint Giles Island St Giles in the Wood St Giles on the Heath St Giles's Hill Wade-Giles
Related terms
en Aegidius
en Gillard
Translations
male given name
Bengali: bn গাইলস
Breton: br Jili m
Bulgarian: bg Егидий m, bg Жил m French transliteration
Catalan: ca Egidi m, ca Gil m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 賈爾斯 Jiǎ'ěrsī transliteration
Czech: cs Jiljí
Dutch: nl Aegidius
Esperanto: eo Egidio
French: fr Égide m, fr Gilles m
Galician: gl Exidio
German: de Ägidius m, de Gilgen m
Greek: el Αιγιδιός m, el Αιγίδιος m
Hungarian: hu Egyed
Italian: it Egidio m
Latin: la Aegīdius m
Lithuanian: lt Egidijus
Occitan: oc Gèli, oc Geli m
Polish: pl Idzi m-pr
Portuguese: pt Egídio m, pt Gil m
Romanian: ro Egidiu
Russian: ru Эгидий m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Егидије
Latin: sh Egidije
Slovene: sl Egidij
Spanish: es Egidio m
Swedish: sv Egidius, sv Gillis
References
Hanks Patrick Hodges Flavia A Concise Dictionary of First Names Oxford University Press 2001
Anagrams
en egils Eglis Geils Legis. Selig gilse gisle gleis legis.
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