Gofraid

Gofraid is an Irish masculine given name, arising in the Old Irish and Middle Irish/Middle Gaelic languages, as Gofhraidh, and later partially Anglicised as Goffraid.[1]

Gofraid
The Gofraidh variant in Gaelic type (the lenited d in the name, today rendered dh, once appeared in Irish orthography with a dot above it, as pictured).
GenderMasculine
Language(s)Irish
Origin
Language(s)Old Norse
DerivationGuðfriðr, sometimes Guðrøðr
Other names
Variant form(s)Irish: Gofraidh;
Old Irish through Middle Irish and Middle Gaelic: Gofhraidh;
modern Scottish Gaelic: Goraidh, Goiridh
Cognate(s)Gottfried, Godefroy, Godfredus;
Godred, Guthred, Guthfrith Godredus
Anglicisation(s)Goffraid, Godfrey, Geoffrey

Gofraid corresponds to the Old Norse Guðfriðr,[2] cognate with Gottfried or Godfredus, and Galfrid or Galfridus. Gofraid/Gofhraidh was sometimes also used for Guðrøðr[3] (partially Anglicized as Godred, Guthred, or Guthfrith, Latinised as Godredus).

Gofraid can be Anglicised as Godfrey[4] or Geoffrey.[5]

The lenited variant spelling Gofraidh (or Gofraiḋ, with a diacritic in the older Irish orthography, especially in Gaelic type), was influenced by the Old French Godefroy.

Goraidh and, less commonly, Goiridh are equivalents in the Scottish Gaelic language (from Guðrøðr).

Notable people bearing this name
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gollark: The inevitability of book is inevitably inevitable.
gollark: I think I've *told* Tux1 about them a few times, so it's their fault.
gollark: I agree completely. The inevitability of apioforms is inevitably inevitable.
gollark: Apioforms have been explained MORE THAN -7 TIMES, if you don't know now it's your own fault.

See also

References
  1. Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 349, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1
  2. Byrne, Francis John (2008), "Ireland before the battle of Clontarf", in Ó Cróinín, D (ed.), Prehistoric and Early Ireland, A New History of Ireland, 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 632, ISBN 978-0-19-821737-4
  3. Downham, Clare (2007), Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland: The Dynasty of Ívarr to A.D. 1014, Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press, p. 3, ISBN 978-1-903765-89-0
  4. Sellar, W. D. H. (2000), "Hebridean Sea Kings: The Successors of Somerled, 1164-1316", in Cowan, Edward J.; McDonald, R. Andrew (eds.), Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Middle Ages, East Linton: Tuckwell Press, p. 187, ISBN 1-86232-151-5
  5. Mark, Colin (2006), The Gaelic-English Dictionary, London: Routledge, p. 715, ISBN 0-203-22259-8
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