Reconstruction:Middle Irish/galldacht
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Middle Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From gallda (“foreign (especially Norse or English); having foreign connections or ways”) + -acht.
Noun[edit]
*galldacht f
- foreignness, English connection, fashion, ways
- (collectively) the Englishry, the English settlers
- district occupied by the English: in Ireland the Pale, in Scotland the Lowlands
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “galldacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language