gei - What does it mean?

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'gei' is a common misspelling of 'gey'

The correct spelling of 'gey'

ends with the letter 'y'.

This incorrect spelling 'gei'

ends with the letter 'i'.

'gei' Spelling Rule

In the early Modern English period, words ending in 'i' were changed to end in 'y'. For example, mani, veri, beauti and marri were changed to many, very, beauty and marry. This explains why some words containing a y, feature an i in their plural or past tense form. For example, try, tried; baby, babies; marry, marries.

Definition of 'gey' not 'gei'

English

Adverb

(en-adv)

(Scotland|Ireland|northern England) Very.

* 1816 , Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary , Oxford University Press, 2002, p.207:

I am nae believer in auld wives' stories about ghaists, though this is gey like a place for them - But mortal, or of the other world, here they come! - twa men and a light.

Adjective

(en-adj)

(Scotland|Ireland|northern England) Fairly good; considerable.

*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 16:

*:They were married next New Year's Day, and Ellison had begun to think himself a gey man in Kinraddie, and maybe one of the gentry.

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