Words for bald / bare in Celtic languages:
| Proto-Celtic | *mailos = bald, bare |
|---|---|
| Primitive Irish | ᚋᚐᚔᚂᚐᚌᚅᚔ (mailagni) = bald, bare |
| Old Irish (Goídelc) | máel [maːi̯l] = bald, bare, shaved, shorn, tonsured; (of cattle) hornless; blunt, flattened, obtuse, pointless, exposed, defenceless |
| Irish (Gaeilge) | maol [mˠeːl̪ˠ / mˠiːlˠ] = bald, bare, unprotected; flat (in music) |
| Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) | maol [mɯːl̪ˠ] = bare, blunt, hornless, polled; easily deceived; dense, dull; flat (in music) |
| Manx (Gaelg) | meayl = bald, hairless, bleak (place), hornless, obtuse; flat (in music) |
| Proto-Brythonic | *moɨl = bold |
| Old Welsh | mail = sea |
| Middle Welsh (Kymraec) | moel = sea |
| Welsh (Cymraeg) | moel [moːɨ̯l / mɔi̯l] = bald, bald-headed, crop-haired, tonsured, beardless; bare, barren, mere; unadorned, plain, discourteous, barefaced; empty (hands); hornless, earless; lacking a tower (of a castle), defective; (bare) mountain, (treeless) hill, top of a hill or mountain, summit, mound; heap |
| Cornish (Kernewek) | mool = bald, bare |
| Middle Breton | moel = bald, bare |
| Breton (Brezhoneg) | moal = bald, bare, naked |
Etymology: uncertain, possibly related to the Proto-Germanic *maitaną (cut) [source].
Sources: Wiktionary, Am Faclair Beag, teanglann.ie, On-Line Manx Dictionary, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, Gerlyver Kernewek, Dictionnaire Favereau
