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Gadhelic, a. and n.|gəˈdɛlɪk|
Also 8 Gaedhlic, 9 Gaedhlic: cf. Goidelic.
[Literary formations from Ir. Gaedheal, pl. Gaedhil, OIr. Gáidel, Góidel, pl. Gáidil, Góidil, the original form of Gael.]
= Gaelic, in uses other than the customary application to the Gaels of Scotland.
The forms Gadhelic and Goidelic are used by modern philologists for ‘pertaining to the Gaels (in the widest sense)’; the earlier forms, now obsolete, are in our quots. used for ‘Irish Gaelic’.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 183 The Gaedhlic, or Scottic, the purest and most ancient of all the Celtic dialects. 1861E. O'Curry Lect. MS. Mat. 3 Ample materials still remain in the Gaedhlic or Irish language. 1865Athenæum No. 960. 687/2 The Gadhelic and the Cymric were used in Gaul. 1875Whitney Life Lang. x. 183 The Gadhelic group includes the Irish. |