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語源

Ultimately probably from Cumbric; compare Cumbrian personal names like Gospatrick, Gososwald and Gosmungo, meaning “servant of Saint [N]” (compare Breton, Cornish, Welsh gwas (“servant, lad, boy”). Jackson suggests that it may be a survival of the original Proto-Celtic form of the word in –o- (i.e. *uɸo-sto[9]). However this has been disputed.

名詞

gossock (複数形 gossocks)

1. (dialectal, Galloway, derogatory) A short, dark-haired inhabitant of Wigtownshire, especially as opposed to tall citizens with fair-colored hair.
   • 1995, Peter Schrijver, Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology, Rodopi (→ISBN), page 121:

     See, however, Lambert (1990a: 354), who regards guos as an abbreviated cognate of W gosod "edict, ordinance" etc., which seems plausible. The form * gwos seems to survive in Galloway English gossock = W gwasog "servant" and in names […]

   • 1980, Douglas Bartlett Gregor, Celtic: A Comparative Study of the Six Celtic Languages, Irish, Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish, Breton Seen Against the Background of Their History, Literature, and Destiny

     […] if THL in the 13th-century Cumberland place-name Polthledith is an attempt to render the sound, as it certainly had been in the Book of Llandaff; and the syllable gos in names such as Gospatrick and local terms in Galloway such as gossock […]

   • 1955, Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Transactions and Journal of Proceedings

     (Kirkmaiden) of the parishes which he described them as inhabiting. I am prepared to admit it as a probability, indeed as a certainty, that “gossock” represents Welsh guasog, “a servile person,” and that most probably it is to be taken as an […]