_Celtic and Latin Languages_ (Vol. ix., p. 14.).--Allow me to suggest to T.
H. T. that the word _Gallus_, a Gaul, is not, _of course_, the same as the
Irish _Gal_, a stranger. Is it not rather the Latin form of _Gaoithil_
(pronounced _Gael_ or _Gaul_), the generic appellation of our Erse
population? In Welsh it is _Gwydyl_, to this day their term for an
Irishman. {138}
_Gaoll_, stranger, is used in Erse to denote a foreign settler, _e.g._ the
Earl of Caithness is Morphear (pronounced _Morar_) _Gaoll_, the stranger
great man; being lord of a corner of the land inhabited by a foreign race.
Galloway, on the other hand, takes its name from the _Gael_, being
possessed by a colony of that people from Kintyre, &c., who long retained
the name of the wild _Scots_[5] of Galloway, to distinguish them from the
Brets or British inhabitants of the rest of the border.