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This is a draft edition! It is very incomplete! See the first part of this article. You have been warned!
The early 12th century Gaelic notes in the Book of Deer mention "Gille Críst mac Cormaic" and "Gille Críst mac Finguni".[Jackson; Simple Guide]
The 1467 manuscript, a collection of genealogies of Scottish Gaelic families written in Ireland by a Scottish Gael and dated 1467 A.D., gives the following spellings for forms of Gille Chríosd (1467 MS):
| "gilla cr[-]" | a man in the 4th generation of the genealogy of Clan Eachtighearna a man in the 5th generation of the genealogy of Clan MacDuffie a man in the 7th generation of the genealogy of Clan Gregor a man in the 17th or greater generation of the genealogy of Clan Macintosh |
| "gilla cr[-]." | a man in the 7th generation of the genealogy of Clan Lachlan |
| "g. cr[-]" |
a man in the 3rd generation of the genealogy of Clan Mackay |
| "i{ll[-]} cr[-]" | a man in the 7th generation of the genealogy of Clan Mc Neachtain |
| unknown spelling |
a man in the 8th generation of the genealogy of Clan Macintosh |
Above, <r[-]> represents an <r> with a straight line above it as an abbreviation mark and <{ll[-]}> represents two <ll>s with a line through them as an abbreviation mark. Generations are counted backwards in time, such that the 1st generation is the first person listed, the 2nd generation is his father, the third generation is his grandfather, and so on. Note, however, that the first person listed in a genealogy was not necessary alive at the time the genealogy was written in 1467 -- in some cases he may have been dead for many generations. Note also that the 1467 MS tends towards archaic spellings.
As yet, no pre-1600 Scottish Gaelic examples of the name have been found in documents written in Gaelic but using Scots orthography.
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In the table below, all Gaelic spellings are normalized; the first column gives Early Gaelic spellings (roughly 600-900 AD), the fifth text column gives Middle Gaelic spellings (roughly 900-1200 AD), and the ninth text column gives Common Gaelic spellings (roughly 1200-1700). A question mark, ?, after a form indicates it is a speculative Scottish Gaelic spelling and parentheses, ( ), around a form indicates it is a non-Gaelic spelling (e.g., Latin or Scots language). Genitive case forms are labeled as such and within square brackets, [ ]. An X in a column indicates there is at least one known example of the name used for a Scottish Gael in the century indicated at the top of that column. An asterisk, *, in a column indicates the same thing except that the evidence has not yet been included above.
| Early Medieval | Late Medieval | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Early Gaelic Spelling |
601- 700 |
701- 800 |
801- 900 |
Middle Gaelic Spelling |
901- 1000 |
1001- 1100 |
1101- 1200 |
Common Gaelic Spelling |
1201- 1300 |
1301- 1400 |
1401- 1500 |
1501- 1600 |
1601- 1700 |
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| Gille Críst | X | Gille Chríosd | x | x | X | ||||||||||
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