gaelic
IPA: gˈeɪɫɪk
Root Word: Gaelic
noun
- Goidelic; any Goidelic language.
- Irish Gaelic.
- Manx Gaelic.
- Scottish Gaelic.
- Short for Gaelic football. [An Irish form of football played by two teams of 15 players each, who score by kicking or punching a ball into the opposing team's goal or over a crossbar and between two upright posts above the goal.]
adjective
- Of or relating to the Gaels, the Goidel peoples of Scotland, Ireland, and the Manx, or their languages.
Examples of "gaelic" in Sentences
- Today the Gaelic script and the .
- Gaelic this and Gaelic that, so fair.
- I speak Gaelic and that's no Gaelic word.
- But there are still ethnically Gaelic people.
- A gaelic historian is a historian of gaelic stuff.
- The name may derive from the Gaelic word for porpoise.
- I'll happily debate in Gaelic with you on the Gaelic page.
- The name of the glen is a curious 'Gaelicisation' of the Gaelic.
- This is in Gaelic with one or two words either in Gaelic or Latin.
- In Gaelic, the vocative case causes lenition of the initial letter of names.