Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Several surnames have multiple spellings; this is sometimes due to unrelated families bearing the same surname. A single surname in either language may have multiple translations in the other. In some English translations of the names, the M(a)c- prefix may be omitted in the English, e.g. Bain vs MacBain, Cowan vs MacCowan, Ritchie vs MacRitchie.
Irish-language surnames (3 C, 86 P) O. O'Shaughnessy family (22 P) Pages in category "Surnames of Irish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category ...
English "Sherlock" surname may derive from Irish or prior Goedelic (Scurlòg). Ciaran Kieran [1] Cliamain Clement [12] SG equivalent of En Clement. [12] Coinneach Kenneth [39] Kenneth is an Anglicisation. [44] Còiseam Constantine [39] Name of three kings of Scotland, Còiseam I, Còiseam II and Còiseam III. [44] Colla Coll [39] Colum Cille ...
Pages in category "Irish-language surnames" The following 86 pages are in this category, out of 86 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Blondel (surname)
Irish name. A formal Irish name consists of a given name and a surname. In the Irish language, most surnames are patronymic surnames (distinct from patronyms, which are seen in Icelandic names for example). The form of a surname varies according to whether its bearer is a man, a woman, or a woman married to a man, who adopts his surname.
M (a)cLaughlin / mɪˈklɒxlɪn / is the most common Anglicized form of Mac Lochlainn, a masculine surname of Irish origin. The feminine form of the surname is Nic Lochlainn. The literal meaning of the name is "son of Lochlann ". [2] Note that Mc is simply a contraction of Mac, which is also (albeit rarely) truncated to M' .
Some Irish-language names have English equivalents, both deriving from a common source, e.g Irish Máire (anglicised Maura), Máirín (Máire + - ín "a diminutive suffix"; anglicised Maureen) and English Mary all derive from French: Marie, which ultimately derives from Hebrew: מַרְיָם (maryām). There are more historical Irish given ...
Tierney / ˈ t ɪər n i / is an Irish surname, and a female given name. The name is an Anglicized form of the Irish language surname Ó Tiarnaigh (literally "Descendant of Tiarnach"; historically spelt Ó Tighearnaigh), derived from tiarna, the Irish word for 'lord' or 'master'. It is sometimes a variant of Tiernan (Irish: Mac Tiarnáin). [1]