单词 | gadhelic |
释义 | Gadhelicn.adj. Now rare. A. n. = Goidelic n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Celtic people > [adjective] > Gaels Erse1425 Scots?c1450 Gaedhelian1724 Gadhelica1773 Dalriadan1788 Dalriadic1789 Gaelic1807 Dalriad1811 Goidelic1874 a1773 A. Butler Lives Saints (1779) X. 5 The Cumaraeg of the Welch, and Gadelic of the Irish, are living proofs of this fact. 1865 Athenæum No. 960. 687/2 The Gadhelic and the Cymric were used in Gaul. a1907 A. MacBain Outl. Gaelic Etymol. (1909) p. xxviii. The -gg must arise from a suffix in -go-, which was operative in early Gadelic. 1948 J. A. MacCulloch Celtic & Scand. Relig. i. 10 Thus each or ech, ‘horse,’ in Gadhelic, is in Brythonic epos. B. adj. = Goidelic adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Celtic > other Pictish1581 Doric1621 Gadhelic1775 Celtiberian1845 Goidelic1874 Q-Celtic1892 1775 in R. O'Flaherty Ogygia Vindicated Editor's pref. p. xv. The genius of Gadelic or Gaelic composition is indeed singularly susceptible of this improvement. 1858 Bibliotheca Sacra Jan. 157 The whole class of Kymric languages is separated from the Gadhelic. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. x. 183 The Gadhelic group includes the Irish. 1910 Scotsman 25 Apr. 8/7 Parallels in Gadhelic literature to certain motifs of Arthurian romance. 1945 J. C. Wise Amer., Background of Columbus x. 246 As the allies of the other Cymrians who had occupied England and driven the Scoti either into Ireland or Scotland where the Gadhelic Picts and the Gaels had remained, they meant to dominate England. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1773 |
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