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Definition of Goidelic
1. Noun. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
Generic synonyms: Celtic, Celtic Language
Specialized synonyms: Irish, Irish Gaelic, Scots Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Manx
Derivative terms: Gaelic
Definition of Goidelic
1. Adjective. Relating to the Goidels. ¹
2. Noun. Division of the Celtic languages including Irish, Gaelic and Manx. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goidelic
Literary usage of Goidelic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Celtic Britain by JOHN. RHYS (1904)
"seized on the best portions of Britain, driving the goidelic Celts before them
to the west and north of the island. Now it is partly the monuments of these ..."
2. The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living: An Old Irish Saga by Kuno Meyer, Dindsenchas, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Scél Túan maic Cairill (1897)
"... Arthur, and Finn, discussion of their relation to each other, and of the
relations between goidelic and Brythonic heroic myth—Reconstitution of the myth ..."
3. Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx by JOHN. RHYS (1901)
"So it looks as if they then belonged to the past—that in fact they were, as I
should put ft, a goidelic people who had been conquered and partly expelled by ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"goidelic occupation of Britain, though contradictory and ... The position of the
goidelic population in Galloway is, however, so peculiar that we hare no ..."
5. Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar by Thomas Rice Holmes (1907)
"In other words, he believes that the goidelic Celts called the island which they
conquered by ' some such a goidelic name as Inis ..."
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