The story
- Old Irish · derived fromdubgall“Dane, black-haired foreigner”
- Scottish Gaelic · derived fromDùghall
- English todayDougal
Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Dùghall, from Old Irish dubgall (“Dane, black-haired foreigner”), synchronically from dubh (“black”) + gall (“stranger”).
Words from the same roots
Scottish GaelicDùghall all →
Dugal
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.