On 12/05/10 03:23, Máirín Duffy wrote:
So it seems Laughlin is an Anglicization of *two* different names!
Indeed one of them, ó Máeilsheáchlainn in Gaeilge, means "servant of St.
Secundums." Malachy is a common contemporary firstname form of this
name.
This would be more where McLaughlin is derived.
The other is Ó Lochlainn in Gaeilge, for which the meaning is
'descendant of the Viking', literally 'descendant of the lake/fjord
lands' [2,3].
Almost the O fada denotes from. Lochlainn is SeaWarrior
Similar to my hometonw: Waterford > VadreFjord (Norse) > PortLairge (as
gaeilge)
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