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Fingal

/ˈfɪŋɡəl/

Fingal proper noun: a male given name from Scottish Gaelic, best known in Scotland.

Proper noun (1)

Fingal

  1. A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, best known in Scotland.
    • Fingal! thou king of heroes! Ossian, next to him in war! ye have fought in your youth; your names are renowned in song.1765, James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz, published 1847, page 204
  2. A locality in the Shire of Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
  3. A locality in Break O'Day Council, north eastern Tasmania, Australia.

Proper noun (2)

IPA/ˈfɪŋɡɔːl/

Fingal

  1. A county of Ireland north of Dublin, formed in 1994 from parts of County Dublin.

Origin of Fingal

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

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

Words formed from Fingal

Words that rhyme with Fingal

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Questions about Fingal

What does Fingal mean?
Fingal means a male given name from Scottish Gaelic, best known in Scotland.
What part of speech is Fingal?
Fingal is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Fingal?
Fingal is pronounced /ˈfɪŋɡəl/.

Words near Fingal in the dictionary

  1. finfoots
  2. Finfrock
  3. Finfrocks
  4. fing
  5. Fing off
  6. Fingal
  7. Fingal Bay
  8. Fingal Head
  9. Fingal's Cave
  10. Fingalian
  11. Fingall

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