Gaelic football

English

WOTD – 17 March 2023

Etymology

David Walsh of the Donegal county football team (left) being tackled by Francis McEldowney of the Derry county football team during the 2008 Ulster Senior Football Championship, a Gaelic football tournament.

Children playing a game of Gaelic football.

From Gaelic (adjective) +‎ football.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɡeɪlɪk ˈfʊtbɔːl/, /ˌɡæ-/, [-ˈfʊʔ-]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɡeɪlɪk ˈfʊtbɔl/, [-ˈfʊʔ-]

• Audio (General American):

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• Hyphenation: Gael‧ic foot‧ball

Noun

Gaelic football (uncountable)

1. An Irish form of football played by two teams of 15 players each, who score by kicking or punching a ball into the opposing team's goal or over a crossbar and between two upright posts above the goal.
   • 2001, Brian Cosgrove, “Sport, Politics and the ‘Other Side’”, in The Yew Tree at the Head of the Strand, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, pages 143–144:

     Armagh (and it is one of the most memorable chapters in the history of Gaelic football) were fated to fall at the last hurdle when they were beaten by Kerry in the All-Ireland decider.

Hypernyms

• Gaelic games

Coordinate terms

• camogie
• Gaelic handball
• hurling
• rounders

Translations

Irish form of football

• Armenian: կելտական ֆուտբոլ (keltakan futbol)
• Basque: futbol gaeliko
• Breton: mell-droad ouezelek
• Catalan: futbol gaèlic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蓋爾式足球／盖尔式足球 (gài'ěrshìzúqiú)

• Danish: Gælisk fodbold c
• Esperanto: pejlo
• Finnish: Gaelilainen jalkapallo, kelttiläinen jalkapallo
• French: football gaelique m
• Galician: fútbol gaélico m
• Georgian: გელური ფეხბურთი (geluri pexburti)
• Greek: γαελικό ποδόσφαιρο n (gaelikó podósfairo)
• Irish: peil Ghaelach f, caid f, peil f
• Italian: calcio gaelico m, football gaelico m
• Lithuanian: Gėlų futbolas
• Macedonian: ге́лски фу́дбал m (gélski fúdbal)
• Manx: bluckan coshey Gaeglagh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Gælisk fotball m

• Polish: futbol gaelicki m
• Portuguese: futebol gaélico m
• Romanian: fotbal galic n
• Russian: гэ́льский футбо́л m (gɛ́lʹskij futból)
• Scots: Gaelic fitbaa
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Гелски фу̏дба̄л m

• Slovak: Írske ragby
• Spanish: fútbol gaélico m
• Swedish: Gaelisk fotboll c
• Turkish: Gal futbolu
• Ukrainian: ге́льський футбо́л m (hélʹsʹkyj futból)
• Welsh: Pêl-droed Wyddelig m

Further reading

• Gaelic football on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “Gaelic football, n.” under “Gaelic, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2022.
• “Gaelic football, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.