English
Fingal
Fingal comes from Scottish Gaelic Fionnghall.
- Scottish GaelicmodernFionnghall
- Englishearliest quotation 1765Fingal
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Scottish GaelicmodernFionnghall
- Englishearliest quotation 1765Fingal
Earliest quotation: 1765, James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian: “Fingal! thou king of heroes! Ossian, next to him…”
A compound of fionn ‘fair’ + gall ‘stranger’
Old Irish find
Scottish Gaelic fionn ‘fair’
Every English word from Scottish Gaelic Fionnghall
Another origin of Fingal
- Irishc. 1200–presentFine Gallliterally ‘race of the Norsemen’
- EnglishtodayFingal
Today it means
name A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, best known in Scotland.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Scottish Gaelic Fionnghall / Fingal