Gael

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• /ɡeɪl/
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• rhymes with -eɪl
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• homophone: gale
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• homophone: Gail
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• homophone: Gayle
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• CMU ARPABET: G EY1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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 *weidelos (“savage, woodsman”), related to *weidus (“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.

17 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: gaele — ethnic group
• Breton: Gouezel — ethnic group
• Catalan: gaèlic — ethnic group
• Chinese Mandarin: 蓋爾人 /盖尔人 (Gài'ěrrén) — ethnic group
• Cornish: Godhal — ethnic group
• Cornish: Godhales — ethnic group
• German: Gäle — ethnic group
• German: Gälin — ethnic group
• Hungarian: gael — ethnic group
• Irish: Gael — ethnic group
• Irish: Gaedheal — ethnic group
• Old Irish: Goídel — ethnic group
• Japanese: ゲール人 (Gēru-jin) — ethnic group
• Manx: Gael — ethnic group
• Scottish Gaelic: Gàidheal — ethnic group
• Tajik: гаэл (gael) — ethnic group
• Welsh: Gael — ethnic group