Fingal

See also: fingal

English

Etymology 1

Scottish Gaelic Fionnghall, from fionn (“fair”) + gall (“stranger”). Used by Macpherson as a rendering of the Irish Fionn mac Cumhail.

Proper noun

Fingal

  1. A male given name, best known in Scotland.
    • 1765 James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz 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

From Irish Fine Gall (literally “race of the Norsemen”).

Proper noun

Fingal

  1. A county in Ireland north of Dublin.
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