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Webster 1913 Edition


Gael

Gael

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Noun.
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ing.
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[See
Gaelic
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(Ethnol.)
A Celt or the Celts of the Scotch Highlands or of Ireland; now esp., a Scotch Highlander of Celtic origin.

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Gael

Gael

See also: gael, gáel, gäl, and Gaël

English

Noun

Gael (plural Gaels)

  1. A member of an ethnic group in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man, whose language is one that is Gaelic.
    1911 The Great Gaels of Ireland
    are the men that God made mad,
    For all their wars are merry
    and all their songs are sad.
    The Ballad of the White Horse, G.K. Chesterton

Translations

Anagrams

References

  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1, page 408

Irish

Alternative forms

  • Gaedheal (Ulster, otherwise superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish Goídel, from the Brythonic ancestor of Welsh gwyddel (Irishman), from Proto-Brythonic *geidelo-, from Proto-Celtic *wēdus (wild), from Proto-Indo-European *weydʰ- (wood, wilderness) (compare Old English wāþ (hunt)).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡeːlˠ/

Noun

Gael m (genitive singular Gaeil, nominative plural Gaeil)

  1. Gael, Irish person
  2. (Scottish) Highlander

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • Gaeilge f, Gaelainn (the Irish language)
  • Gaelach (Irish; attached to the Irish language, to Irish culture)
  • Gaelaigh (Gaelicize, verb)
  • Gaeltacht f (Irishry; Irish(-speaking) people; Irish-speaking area; Gaelic-speaking area of Scotland)
  • Gaelú m (Gaelicization)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
Gael Ghael nGael
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1, page 408
  • "Gael" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Goídel” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

gael

gael

See also: Gael, gáel, gäl, and Gaël

Dutch Low Saxon

Alternative forms

Adjective

gael

  1. yellow

Noun

gael

  1. yellow

Welsh

Verb

gael

  1. Soft mutation of cael.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cael gael nghael chael
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.