Goídel

== Old Irish == === Etymology === From Proto-Brythonic *Guɨðel (the ancestor of Welsh Gwyddel (“Irishman”)), from Proto-Celtic *weidus (“wild”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“wood, wilderness”). Medieval Irish traditions, including the Lebor Gabála Érenn, trace the origin of the Goídels to an eponymous ancestor, Goídel Glas, but this is not held to be the actual etymology of the word. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡoːi̯.ðʲəl/ (Blasse) [ˈɡoːi̯.ðʲel] (Griffith) [ˈɡoːi̯.ðʲəl] === Noun === Goídel m (genitive Goídil, nominative plural Goídil) Gael ==== Inflection ==== ==== Related terms ==== Goídelc ==== Descendants ==== Middle Irish: Goídel, Gaídel Irish: Gaoidheal, Gael Manx: Gael Scottish Gaelic: Gàidheal, earlier also Gaoidheal === Mutation === === References === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Goídel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language