Fingal
See also: fingal
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Scottish Gaelic Fionnghall, from fionn (“fair”) + gall (“stranger”). Used by Macpherson as a rendering of the Irish Fionn mac Cumhail.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editFingal
- A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, best known in Scotland.
- 1765, James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz, published 1847, page 204:
- Fingal! thou king of heroes! Ossian, next to him in war! ye have fought in your youth; your names are renowned in song.
Etymology 2
editFrom Irish Fine Gall (literally “race of the Norsemen”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editFingal
Translations
editcounty in Ireland
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