Personal and Family Names; A Popular Monograph on the Origin and History of the Nomenclature of the Present and Former Times

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...a native of India, con. Allahabad: the abode of Allah. From Moor con Amaurois: darkening of eyes, and gives Mohair, as also the Morian's land, Murillo (painter): little Moor. Numidia: land of nomads, graziers. Nomad: one who seeks Nome: pasture. Palestine: stan of the Philistines, shepherds, Pales: wanderers = Gael, Gaul: forest dweller, con. Coyle: a wood, whence;culyer = Savage, Congal: brave stranger, lit. dog Gaul. Neal, Neil, were originally Nageal, Nageil, n answering to new, seen better in Nagle, Nigell: new Gael, i.e., an emigrant = Newcome: a stranger. Hy Nial (nine hostages) = O'neil. Neil assumes the odd form of Nile. Dhu: dark, whence Dun: dark; Dee, dark river, giving Donkey: dun coloured, Duffus: dark water, in combination with Gael, gives Dugall, Dugald, Dowell, Doul: dark Gael. Galyon: son of a Gael, an Englishman. Half a millennium since the Irish called us Gaels: strangers, thus Gallocher: half Gael, half Sassenach. Fingal (prince of Mo wen): fair Gael. Ogal: young Gael, whence Ogilvie: Ogal's by, dwelling. Hence, too, Gales, Gault, Galt, Gall (phrenologist) Gallie, Wale, Wallace (Elderslie): a form of Gallois. Cornwallis: comounded of Kern: a foot soldier, and Gallois. Galloglasses: lue Gaels. The Galloglass succeedeth the horseman, and he is commonly armed with a scull: shirt of mail, and a Galloglass axe. The Irish do make great account of them. To the Gaels we owe Galloway, Argyle: high places of the Gaels, con. Arch, high. Bothwell: their bothie, dwelling = BalLingall. Wales (Pays de Galle): Cornwall: promontory of the Gaels. Waloons: continental Gaels or Gauls, Caledonia for Galedonia, Deuealedonian sea: black sea of the Gaels, from vessels being wrecked there. So the Turks call Pontus Euxinus, the Black Sea. Ortegal = A...