Gall

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See also: gall and gäll

English

Etymology

Proper noun

Gall (plural Galls)

  1. A surname.

Breton

Etymology

From Latin Gallus, see also Scottish Gaelic Gall.

Pronunciation

Noun

Gall m (plural Gallaoued)

  1. (archaic) foreigner
  2. (dated) Gaul, Gaulish person
  3. Gallo-speaker
  4. Frenchman, Romance-speaking person not from Lower Brittany

Inflection

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  Mutation of Gall  
Breton consonant mutation
unmutated soft aspirate hard
singular Gall C'hall unchanged Kall
plural Gallaoued C'hallaoued unchanged Kallaoued

Derived terms

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Irish

Etymology

See gall.

Pronunciation

Noun

Gall m (genitive singular Gaill, nominative plural Gaill)

  1. (historical) Gaul (person from Gaul)
  2. (historical) Northman, Dane (member of the Germanic tribe inhabiting the Danish islands and parts of southern Sweden)
  3. (historical) Norman (member of the mixed Scandinavian and French peoples who, in the 11th century, were a major military power in Western Europe and who conquered the English in 1066), Anglo-Norman (descendant of the Normans who settled in England after the Norman Conquest), Englishman
    Synonym: Normannach
    1. (by extension) Brit
      Synonyms: Briotanach, Sasanach

Declension

Declension of Gall

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Gall Gaill
Vocative a Ghaill a Ghalla
Genitive Gaill Gall
Dative Gall Gaill

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an Gall na Gaill
Genitive an Ghaill na nGall
Dative leis an nGall

don Ghall

leis na Gaill

Derived terms

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Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
Gall Ghall nGall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish gall (“foreigner”), from Latin Gallus (“a Gaul”), from a native Celtic name, the Gauls being the first strangers to visit or be visited by the Irish in Pre-Roman and Roman times. Compare Proto-Celtic *gallos (whence Welsh gal (“enemy, foe”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

Gall m (genitive singular Goill, plural Goill)

  1. foreigner, alien
    Synonyms: coimheach, coigreach
  2. Lowlander (Scottish Lowlands)

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
Gall Ghall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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