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This is a draft edition! Currently it doesn't have all that much in it. You have been warned!
Eachach buighe [Skene]
Domnaill duin [Skene]
Domnuil duin [Skene]
Donaill duin [Skene]
Donaill duin [Skene]
Domnaill dubh [Skene]
Fearadaig fin [Skene]
Feradach finn [Skene]
Domnaill brec [Skene]
Fearchair fada [Skene]
Fearchair fata [Skene]
Fearchair fata [Skene]
Fearchair fata [Skene]
Fearchar fada [Skene]
Ailin moir [Skene]
Angus moir [Skene]
Conair moir [Skene]
Dubgall moir [Skene]
Conaire caeimh [Skene]
Aigh cobtach [Skene]
Cailin og [Skene]
Domnaill og [Skene]
Domnall oig [Skene]
Finlaec oig [Skene]
Note that the following example is not of a byname but an alternative identification:
M1012.6 Domhnall, .i. An Cat, ríghdhamhna Connacht, do mharbhadh lá Maol Ruanaidh ua Maol Doraidh, & Magh n-Aoi do losccadh & d'arccain uile lais, iar sraoineadh for Connachtaibh & iar c-cor a n-áir. [Four Masters, M1012.6]
M1012.5 Domhnall, i.e. the Cat, royal heir of Connaught, was killed by Maelruanaidh Ua Maeldoraidh; and Magh-Aei was totally plundered and burned by him, after defeating and slaughtering the Connaughtmen. [Four Masters Translation, M1012.5]
Fearchar abradhruaidh [Skene] ('red-eyebrow/lid'?, "fabhra" = eyebrow; 2. eyelid; 3. etc)
Note the construction of the following example, using <renabarta>, 'called':
Donaill renabarta in Caimgilla [Skene] ('called <in Caimgilla>', cam = crooked 2. Blind of an eye 3. etc)
Eachach muinreamhair [Skene]
Eachach muinreamhair [Skene]
Eoch. muinreamhair [Skene]
| [1] | None, so far! |
| 1467 MS | A photograph of the "1467 Manuscript", a Gaelic genealogical manuscript which is shelf-marked Adv.MS.72.1.1 in the Scottish National Library. Colm O'Boyle has kindly helped with transcriptions from this manuscript. |
| ASPA | Vatican Archives: Acta Sacra Penitentiariae Apostolica. |
| Barrow | Barrow, G. W. S. Kingship and Unity: Scotland 1000 - 1306. Edited by Jenny Wormald. Vol. 2, The New History of Scotland. London: Edward Arnold, 1981. |
| Bruce | Barrow, G. W. S. Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1976. |
| Black | Black, George F. The Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning, and History. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 1993. Original edition, The New York Public Library, 1946. NYPublic Library 1999 hardback at Amazon.com - Birlinn 1996 hardback at Amazon.co.uk |
| Duncan | Duncan, A. A. M. Scotland: The Making of the Kingdom. Edited by Gordon Donaldson. Vol. 1, The Edinburgh History of Scotland. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1978. |
| Dwelly | Dwelly, Edward, ed. The Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary. Ninth ed. Glasgow: Gairm Publications, 1977. First edition original publication, 1901-1911. Birlinn hardcover Amazon.com - Amazon.co.uk - Barnes&Noble; Gairm 11th ed. paperback Amazon.com - Amazon.co.uk - Barnes&Noble; Birlinn paperback Amazon.co.uk |
| Grant | Fraser, Sir William. The Chiefs of Grant. Edinburgh: 1883. |
| Jackson | Jackson, Kenneth. The Gaelic Notes in the Book of Deer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. |
| Mackechnie | Mackechnie, John. "Treaty between Argyll and O'Donnell." Scottish Gaelic Studies 7, no. 1 (1951): 94-102. |
| MacPhail | MacPhail, J. R. N. "Treaty between Argyll and O'Donnell." In Highland Papers, Volume IV, edited by J. R. N. MacPhail, 212-16. Vol. 22, Publications of the Scottish History Society (Third Series). Edinburgh: The Scottish History Society, 1934. |
| Morgan | Morgan, Peadar. Ainmean Chloinne - Scottish Gaelic Names for Children. Broadford, Isle of Skye: Taigh na Teud Music Publishers, 1989. |
| Munro | Munro, Jean, and R.W. Munro. Acts of the Lords of the Isles: 1336-1493, Scottish History Society, 4th Series, vol. 22. Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 1986. |
| O'Brien | Jones, Heather Rose. "Feminine Names from the Index to O'Brien's Corpus Genealogiarum Hiberniae" (2nd edition) [WWW]. The Medieval Names Archive, 2 Dec 1999 [cited 2000]. Available from http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/obrien/. |
| OCM | Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, and Fidelma Maguire. Irish Names, 2nd ed. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1990. [Another edition has the title Gaelic Names.] |
| Scott | Scott, Brian M. "A List of Feminine Personal Names Found in Scottish Records" [WWW]. The Medieval Names Archive, 27 Jun 2000 [cited 2000]. Available from http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/scottishfem/. |
| Skene | |
| Simple Guide | Krossa, Sharon L. "A Simple Guide to Constructing 12th Century Scottish Gaelic Names" [WWW]. Medieval Scotland, 18 Jun 1997 [cited 14 Aug 2000]. Available from http://www.MedievalScotland.org/scotnames/simplescotgaelicnames12.shtml. |
| Woulfe | Woulfe, Patrick. Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall: Irish Names and Surnames. Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son, Ltd, 1923. |
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