Gaelic

alternative obsolete Galic

1. Goidelic; any Goidelic language.

   By the time this mysterious knight died in the 1360s, his book was available in every European language, including Dutch, Gaelic, Czech, Catalan, and Walloon.

   2001 December 2, Giles Milton, “'The Riddle and the Knight'”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2022

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   She taught herself some Gaelic as a child. It’s hard to pronounce, and with no other Gaelic speakers around that she could practice on, she’s forgotten nearly all of what she learned.

   2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 342

   1. Irish Gaelic.
   2. Manx Gaelic.
   3. Scottish Gaelic.
   4. Classical Gaelic.

alternative obsolete Galic

1. not comparableOf or relating to the Gaels, the Celtic peoples of Scotland, Ireland, and the Isle of Man, or their languages.

   I began to study coats of arms, visit the Web sites of portrait galleries and look up the etymology of Gaelic names.

   2012 August 13, Leslie Larson, “Up a family tree”, in CNN

alternative obsolete Galic

1. abbreviationellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Gaelic football.

   Undoubtedly, the main reasons why many gifted young Irish sportsmen such as Niall Quinn, Kevin Moran and Frank Stapleton opted to play soccer instead of Gaelic is^([sic]) that soccer afforded them the opportunity to display and test their abilities in an international arena and earn a good living.

   1995, John Sugden, Alan Bairner, Sport, Sectarianism and Society, page 42