English: nickname, perhaps for a messenger, from Middle English
go(n) ‘to go’ (Old English gan) + lihtly
‘lightly’, ‘swiftly’ (Old English leoht(lic)).Scottish: altered form of a surname of uncertain origin, possibly
an unidentified habitational name. The earliest known bearer is
William Galithli, who witnessed a charter at the beginning of the 13th
century. Henry Gellatly, an illegitimate son of William the Lion, of
whom little or nothing is known, was the grandfather of Patric
Galythly, one of the pretenders to the crown of Scotland in 1291.Irish: adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac an
Ghallóglaigh ‘son of the galloglass’, Irish
gallóglach. A galloglass was a mercenary retainer or
auxiliary soldier (a compound of gall ‘foreigner’ (see
Gall 1) + óglach ‘youth’, ‘warrior’). The name is
also found pseudo-translated as English.
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