English

Gildea

Gildea comes from Irish Mac Giolla Dhé ‘son of the servant of God’.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of giolla ‘boy, lad’ + Dia ‘God’

Proto-Germanic *geldaną ‘to pay, have value’

Proto-Germanic *gildiz ‘valuable, wholesome, precious’

Old Norse gildr ‘brawny, stout, of full value’

Middle Irish gilla ‘a youth of an age to bear arms’

Irish giolla ‘boy, lad’

Proto-Indo-European *dyew- ‘sky, heaven’

Proto-Indo-European *deywós ‘god’

Proto-Celtic *deiwos ‘god, deity’

Old Irish Día

Irish Dia ‘God’

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla Dhé (‘son of the servant of God’), from giolla (‘boy, lad; attendant’) and Dia (‘God’).

Every English word from Irish Mac Giolla Dhé

name A surname from Irish.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.