Gaoidhealg

• Gáoidhealg

From Old Irish Goídelc.

Gaoidhealg f (genitive singular Gaoidhilge, dative and accusative singular Gaoidhilg)

1. Gaelic language, Irish
2. (grammar) pronunciation, spoken language as opposed to ogham (“spelling, written language”)
   • a. 1640, Eoin Mac Cárthaigh, editor, The Art of Bardic Poetry: A New Edition of Irish Grammatical Tracts I, published 2014, §2, ll. 80–3, page 56:

     ⁊ dlighidh dā phríomhlocht na soidélach do sheachna, (…) ⁊ an connsuine bháithtear do G[h]āoidheilg do dhénamh d’ogham san chomhfhocal

     and he should avoid the two cardinal faults of the peudo-knowledgeable, (…) and writing the consonant elided in pronunciation in a compound word

   • a. 1640, Eoin Mac Cárthaigh, editor, The Art of Bardic Poetry: A New Edition of Irish Grammatical Tracts I, published 2014, §50, ll. 555–6, page 88:

     Nī cōir na séimhighthe-sin náid a leithéide eile do rádh do G[h]āoidheilg, giodh cōir d’ogham íad

     Such lenition should not be expressed in pronunciation, though it is correct in writing

From Old Irish Goídelc.

Gaoidhealg f (genitive Gaoidhilge)

1. Obsolete form of Gaeilge.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Gaoidheal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “Goídelc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language