Gall

Morpheme

Gall

Type

free base

Denotation

bile, liver secretion, yellow-green; brazenness, imprudence, chutzpah

Etymology

Middle English galle; Old English galla, gealla, ġealla

Evidence

gall, gallbladder, gallic, gallstone, gally, oxgall

Notes

“brazeness” notion from “bile” notion via humorism (influence of humors on disease)

Homographs

Gall, Gall, Gall