Gall

• As an English, Scottish Gaelic, and Irish surname, of Celtic origin, from Gall (“foreigner”). This is in turn from Latin Gallus, which has borrowings (many of which are surnames) in several European languages, such as Czech Havel, Polish Gawel.
• As a Hungarian surname, variant of Gál, itself from the Latin word.

Gall (plural Galls)

1. A surname.

From Latin Gallus, see also Scottish Gaelic Gall.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡalː/

Gall m (plural Gallaoued)

1. (archaic) foreigner
2. (dated) Gaul, Gaulish person
3. Gallo-speaker
4. Frenchman, Romance-speaking person not from Lower Brittany

• galleg

• gallaoueg

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡal]

Gall m anim (female equivalent Gallová)

1. a male surname

See gall.

• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ɡɑ(ː)l̪ˠ/^[1]
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /ɡɑːl̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡal̪ˠ/^[2]

Gall m (genitive singular Gaill, nominative plural Gaill)

1. (historical) Gaul (person from Gaul)
2. (historical) Northman, Dane (member of the Germanic tribe inhabiting the Danish islands and parts of southern Sweden)
3. (historical) Norman (member of the mixed Scandinavian and French peoples who, in the 11th century, were a major military power in Western Europe and who conquered the English in 1066), Anglo-Norman (descendant of the Normans who settled in England after the Norman Conquest), Englishman

   Synonym: Normannach

   1. (by extension) Brit

      Synonyms: Briotanach, Sasanach

• gall

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Gall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Gall”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “Gall”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

From Latin Gallus (“a Gaul”), probably from the root of Proto-Celtic *galnati (“to be able”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡal͈/

Gall m (genitive Gaill, nominative plural Gaill)

1. Gaul (person from Gaul)

The only meaning attested in Old Irish is “person from Gaul”. In later stages of Irish, it came to be applied to anyone who was not of indigenous Gaelic ancestry, e.g. Norse people, Anglo-Normans, English people etc. and (normalized as lower-case gall) as a common noun meaning simply “foreigner”.

• Irish: Gall
• Manx: Goal
• Scottish Gaelic: Gall
• Middle Irish: gall
  • Irish: gall
  • Manx: goal
  • Scottish Gaelic: gall

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “25308”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• gall

From Old Irish Gall (“a Gaul”), from Latin Gallus (“a Gaul”), from a native Celtic name, the Gauls being the first strangers to visit or be visited by the Irish in Pre-Roman and Roman times. Compare Proto-Celtic *gallos (whence Welsh gal (“enemy, foe”)).

• IPA^(key): /kaul̪ˠ/

Gall m (genitive singular Goill, plural Goill)

1. foreigner, alien

   Synonyms: coimheach, coigreach

2. Lowlander (Scottish Lowlands)