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gull in a sentence

• Har du silver har du gull, / har du kistorna full?
  Do you have silver and gold, / are your treasure chests full? (song lyrics)
• Vill du vara dig själver huld, / du älska frihet mer än guld (translated to standard Swedish)
  If you want to help yourself, you should love freedom more than gold
• mina små gull
  my little darlings
• Kom nu gullet, det är finfint väder ute
  Come on baby, it's a perfect sunny day

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Origin

From gull, gul, gol, from Old Norse gull (compare Runic Old East Norse: ᚴᚢᛚ (kul /⁠ḡull⁠/), ᛁᚢᛚ (iul /⁠jull⁠/)), from Proto-Germanic *gulþą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”).

Nearby common words

gull is number 3,459 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

• 3,454skräck terror, horror
• 3,456halsband necklace (jewelry)
• 3,457därefter afterward, then
• 3,458psykopat psychopath
• 3,460skåla drink to [sby's health], toast
• 3,461syre oxygen
• 3,462strypa choke, strangle
• 3,463repa scratch, score