gullible
English
/ˈɡʌlɪbl̩/
adj
Definitions
- Easily deceived or duped; naive, easily cheated or fooled.
Etymology
Suffix from English gull (dupe, sucker, mark) derived from Middle English gull (newly hatched bird) derived from Old Norse gulr.
Origin
Old Norse
gulr
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- gull English
- gullable English
- gullage English
- guller English
- gullery English
- gullibleness English
- gullibly English
- gullish English
- gullwing English
- nongullible English
- seagull English
- shark-gull English
- *ǵʰelh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- gul Norwegian Bokmål
- *gulaz Proto-Germanic
- gul Swedish
- gul Norwegian Nynorsk
- gull Middle English
- gulle Middle English
- gulr Old Norse
- gul Danish
- gulur Icelandic
- gulur Faroese
- goḷa Westrobothnian