Gaelicismn.
/ˈɡeɪlᵻsɪz(ə)m/, /ˈɡalᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈɡeɪləˌsɪz(ə)m/ 1. A word, phrase, or other use of language characteristic of, peculiar to, or originating in a Gaelic language.
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1815 Baptist Mag. Jan. 32/1 Iricisms (perhaps Gaelicisms) also not seldom demand an opposite construction.
1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 3 May Where unusual words occur, such as Kythin, blate, sklent, hadden, creepie, and other mysterious Gaelicisms, an explanatory glossary is appended.
1892 Aberdeen Weekly Jrnl. 21 Jan. 7/4 Some of the expressions—such as ‘the morn’ for ‘in the morning’—may be Gaelicisms in the district, which we guess to be Caithness.
1947 Amer. Speech 22 21 Webster cites the word smithers in Tennyson, who was not particularly receptive to Gaelicisms.
2003 K. A. Miller Irish Immigrants in Land of Canaan iii. 231 The presence of the simple past here, rather than the expected perfect..represents a Gaelicism, Irish having a single past tense covering the semantic area split between two forms in English.
2. As a mass noun: those qualities regarded as characteristic of Gaelic people or culture; (also) enthusiasm or support for Gaelic language or culture.
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Gaelicism1819
1819 T. Campbell Specimens Brit. Poets II. 66 It speaks pretty clearly for the general Gaelicism of the Scotch at that period.
1895 Catholic News 14 Sept. 6 Those two events made an end of the Gaelicism of the Gaelic race.
1934 Studies 23 614 Does anyone imagine that those Gaels ridded themselves at once of all they had inherited, whether of Catholicism or Gaelicism, from their fathers?
1980 Times 1 May 17/7 Nationalists do not have to forgo their republicanism nor their Gaelicism.
2016 Irish Independent (Nexis) 29 June (News section) 21 If we're truly Gaelic we must constantly discuss the question of the Gaelic revival and the question of Gaelicism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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