Etymology

Dugal

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Scottish Gaelic Dùghall ← Punjabi ਦੁੱਗਲ
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The story

  1. Punjabi · borrowed fromਦੁੱਗਲ
  2. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromDùghall
  3. English todayDugal

Various origin: * Either an Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Dùghall or a reduced form of McDougall. * As a French Canadian surname, from the personal name Tugal, a name of Germanic origin, from the name Tugwald, composed of *tug (“useful”) (compare *togōn (“to draw, pull”)) + *wald (“authority, power”). * As a French surname, from du (“of the”) + the personal name Gal, both from gal (“rooster”) (from Latin gallus) and the Latin name Gallus. * Borrowed from Punjabi ਦੁੱਗਲ (duggal); this surname is more often spelt Duggal.

Words from the same roots

Scottish GaelicDùghall all →

Dougal

Punjabiਦੁੱਗਲ all →

Duggal

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.