To make something Gaelic in character, style, or language, or to teach someone to speak and use Gaelic.
From 'Gaelic' plus '-ize,' a suffix meaning 'to make or cause to be.' The verb form emerged in tandem with gaelicization efforts.
Gaelicize is like the action version of gaelicization—when Irish independence leaders gaelicized the school system, they were literally rewriting what language children learned first.
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