Gael

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

A member of an ethnic group in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man, whose language is one that is Gaelic.

Name

An unknown-gender given name.

Konzepte

Gälisch

Ersisch

Goidelisch

Synonyme

Celt

Kelt

Scotsman

Highlander

Scotchman

Scottish Gaelic

Goidelic

Irishman

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ɡeɪl/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Borrowed from Irish Gael, alt. Gaol, from earlier Gaoidheal, cognate with Scottish Gaelic Gàidheal and Manx Gael, from Middle Irish Gaídel, from Old Irish Goídel (“Irishman”), a loanword from Old Welsh Guoidel (“wild man, warrior”) (also recorded as a personal name in the Book of Llandaff), from Proto-Brythonic *guɨðel (“savage, woodsman”), from Proto-Celtic *wēdelos (“savage, woodsman”), related to *wēdus (“wild”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“wood, wilderness”) (cf. Old English wāþ (“hunt”)). Doublet of Goidel, unrelated to Gaul or Gallia.
Medieval Irish traditions, including the Lebor Gabála Érenn, trace the origin of the Goídels to an eponymous ancestor, Goídel Glas, but this is no longer held to be the ultimate etymology of the word.