Maël (given Name)
The name Mael resembles old Celtic names from Brittany, Wales, and Ireland. "Mael" is a Breton boys' name meaning "chief" or "prince". The name for girls is "Maela". The Breton name is popular in French as "Maël", with French girl-forms "Maëlys" and "Maëlle", largely after the Breton Saint Maël. The Welsh boys name Mael was borne by the legendary son of Roycol. The old Irish word "máel" (now spelt "maol"), meaning "bald" and hence "monk", was sometimes put before Gaelic names to form new names such as "Maolcholuim" (spelt "Malcolm" by the English), which means "monk/follower of Columba Columba or Colmcille; gd, Calum Cille; gv, Colum Keeilley; non, Kolban or at least partly reinterpreted as (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is toda ...". Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Mael (Given Name) Breton masculine given names Welsh masculine given names Welsh given names Irish-language m ...
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Celtic Languages
The Celtic languages (usually , but sometimes ) are a group of related languages descended from Proto-Celtic. They form a branch of the Indo-European language family. The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, following Paul-Yves Pezron, who made the explicit link between the Celts described by classical writers and the Welsh and Breton languages. During the 1st millennium BC, Celtic languages were spoken across much of Europe and central Ana