Fingal
See also: fingal
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Scottish Gaelic Fionnghall, from fionn (“fair”) + gall (“stranger”). Used by Macpherson as a rendering of the Irish Fionn mac Cumhail.
Proper noun edit
Fingal
- 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 edit
From Irish Fine Gall (literally “race of the Norsemen”).
Proper noun edit
Fingal
Translations edit
county in Ireland
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