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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA male given name from Irish or Scottish Gaelic used in Ireland and Scotland since the Middle Ages.
Borrowed from Irish Niall or Scottish Gaelic Niall, ultimately from Old Irish Níall, of uncertain original meaning. Suggestions include nél (“cloud”) and nïa (“champion”), which is from Proto-Indo-European *h₃neyd- (“to revile”). Doublet of Neil.
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