_Gahn._ _Gean_, pronounced _gahn_, affection, esteem.
_Gall._ _Gall_, a foreigner, an Englishman, a stranger.
_Galligan._ _Gall_, genitive _gaill_, stranger; _gan_, offspring.
Descendant of the stranger.
_Gallagher._ _Geall_, promise; _geallać_, genitive _geallaiǵ_, promise;
_er_, person. A person of promise.
_Gallen._ _Geallan_, a linnet.
_Galloway._ Doubtless, same as Galway. In the original _Gailliḿ_, the
town of the strangers.
_Garrett._ _Gearroid́_, from _gearr_, short; _aod́_, compounded of _aoi_,
a being, and _De_, of God. An humble servant of God.
_Garrity._ _Gearroid́_, Garrett; _eać_, an agent. A representative of
Garrett.
_Garvin._ _Garb́_, pronounced _garv_, rough, rude; _in_, indicative of
personality. A rough, rude, or unlettered person.
_Gaw._ _Gab́_, pronounced _gaw_, to conceive.
_Gear._ _Gearr_, short, not tall.
_Gee._ _Aod́_, pronounced _eey_, Hugh.
_Geir._ _Gair_, gladness, merriment, rejoicing.
_Geogh._ _Ge_, a goose; _ać_, an agent. One that acts like a goose; a
silly person. Geough, Gough, of kindred origin.
_Geugan._ _Geug_, a branch; _an_, a diminutive. A branchlet. Geugen,
doubtless, earliest change from the ancient form.
_Gilchrist._ _Giolla_, a servant, one devoted to another; _Criosd_,
Christ. A servant of Christ; one devoted to Christianity.
_Gill._ _Giolla_, a servant, one devoted to another’s interests; a menial.
_Gilmartin._ _Giolla_, a servant; _martin_, Martin.
_Gilmore._ Originally, _giolla—Muire_; _giolla_, a servant; _Muire_,
Mary. One devoted to Mary.
_Ginn._ _Ginn_, an offspring, a descendant.
_Ginnelly._ _Ginn_, offspring; _aille_, of a cliff, the genitive of
_aill_. The fruit of a cliff.
_Glass._ _Glas_, green.
_Glassy._ _Glas_, green; _eać_ an individual. An inexperienced person.
_Gleason._ _Gle_, pure; _gleas_, purity; _on_, implying a person. A
chaste person.
_Glennessy._ _Glinn_, clear; _eas_, denoting quality, equivalent to
_ness_; _y_ for _neać_, an individual. A clear-sighted person.
_Glenny._ _Glean_, a valley; _eać_, an individual. A dweller in a valley.
_Glinn._ _Glinn_, the bright heavens. Home of the Blessed. Glynn, of like
significance.
_Gorman._ _Gorm_, blue; _an_, expressive of person. A blue-eyed person.
_Grane._ _Graine_, grain.
_Greany._ _Grian_, pronounced _green_, sun; _neać_, an agent. Sun-god.
_Grogan._ _Gruag_, hairy; _an_, denoting a person. A hairy person.
Grugan, derivable from the same roots.
_Guill._ _Giolla_, a servant, a menial.
_Guinan._ _Guin_, wound, hurt, sting, from _ga_, an arrow, and _an_, a
circle, an opening; _an_, a personal suffix. A sufferer; a wounded man.
_Guinn._ _Guin_, an opening, a wound.
_Guiness._ Irish for Æneas, a corruption of _Mac Anǵuis_, which latter
being the genitive of _Aonǵus_, pronounced _eny-as_, the equivalent of
Angus.
_Guire._ Contraction of Maguire, which is traceable to _maǵ_, plain;
_uire_, a contraction of _Muire_, Mary. Plain of Mary.
_Gunn._ _Guin_, a wound, by dropping _i_, and doubling its final
consonant, becomes the word under consideration.
_Gwin._ Anglicised form of Guin. Gwinn, Gwynn, and Gynn are referable to
the same word.