Sentence:  - - - my father's father, Gaetano Talese (whose name I inherited after my birth in 1932, in the anglicized form "<WSD>Gay</WSD>"), "was" an atypically fearless traveler, 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (from=English). Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred from the surname.