Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A subdivision of the Insular Celtic languages that includes Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx.
- adjective Of or relating to the Gaels.
- adjective Of or relating to Goidelic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Goidels.
- noun The language of the Goidels ancient Celtic of the branch represented by Old Irish, and by modern Irish and Gaelic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to the
Goidels . - noun Division of the
Celtic languages includingIrish ,Gaelic andManx .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland
Etymologies
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Examples
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As the type of Celtic speech that has penetrated farthest to the west is that known as the Goidelic or Irish, it has not unreasonably been thought that this must have been the type that arrived in Britain first.
Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times Edward Anwyl 1890
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The name Sorcha Faal "comes from the ancient Gaeilge branch of the Goidelic languages of Ireland" and has the meaning of: Sorcha: She Who Brings Light; Faal: the Dark and Barren Place.
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The name Sorcha Faal "comes from the ancient Gaeilge branch of the Goidelic languages of Ireland" and has the meaning of: Sorcha: She Who Brings Light; Faal: the Dark and Barren Place.
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Then there are two forms there that are more Goidelic than Brythonic.
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They belong to the Goidelic or Q-Celtic branch of Celtic languages, AFAIK, and Welsh, Breton, and Cornish are Brythonic or P-Celtic.
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Brythonic rather than Goidelic; and Dr. Rhys surmises that it is really an older form of speech, neither Goidelic nor Brythonic, and probably not allied to either, although, in the form in which its fragments have come down to us, it has been deeply affected by Brythonic forms.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
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Goidels and Brythons must at one period have met; but the result of the meeting was to drive the Goidels into the Highlands, where the Goidelic or Gaelic form of speech still remains different from the Welsh of the descendants of the Britons.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
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While in the extreme north, Ross, Cromarty, Sutherland, and Caithness, the Church remained missionary rather than parochial, in the Scotland of the south monasticism became prominent again under a new order called, in Goidelic, "Culdees" (servants of God).
The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 William Holden Hutton 1895
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Goidels, Celtic stock in Ireland, 53; Goidelic language, 119
The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 William Holden Hutton 1895
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There is a similar line of cleavage in the Italic languages, where Latin corresponds to Goidelic, and Oscan and Umbrian to
Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times Edward Anwyl 1890
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