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Can someone just clear this up..

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  • 17-12-2007 1:22am
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    estebancambias
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    What does Ni mean in Irish?

    Also just looking through the meaning of some Irish surnames, interesting to note that Doyle means dark foreigner, Gallagher means lover of foreigners, and Reid means red hair, ruddy skin(was someone joking with Steven Reid!!!)


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    Karoma
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    'Daughter of'


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    mikemac
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    Well I know "Mac" is son of so possibly "Ni" is daughter of
    (not sure how to type a fada on a mac)

    I'm probably well off the mark though

    Why not ask in the Gaelige forum?

    ^^^beaten to it


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    estebancambias
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    Sorry..I honestly did not know it existed.


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    Múinteoir
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    Karoma wrote: »
    'Daughter of'

    Yes and it is written as 'Nic' if the prefix is 'Mac' i.e. Mac Gearailt - Nic Gearailt. 'Ó' (old spelling 'Ua') incidentally, 'means grandson of'.


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    McArmalite
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    Múinteoir wrote: »
    Yes and it is written as 'Nic' if the prefix is 'Mac' i.e. Mac Gearailt - Nic Gearailt. 'Ó' (old spelling 'Ua') incidentally, 'means grandson of'.

    " 'Ó' (old spelling 'Ua') incidentally, 'means grandson of'. " - interesting. A Czech woman I know whose surname is Marsikova told me something like that in Czech a single woman's name always ends in 'ova' until she marries, taking the man's name, something similiar to Irish. So if she married a guy called Nedved, she would use the name Nedved but her daughters would use Nedvedova or something like that. Doesn't Fitz, which is obviously Norman in origin, also mean 'son of' ?? And names ending in son such as Ferguson, Anderson etc are Scandinavian in origin ??


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