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Ten7d5
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Posted on Monday, November 21, 2005 - 11:49 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Hi, i just translated my last name "McLain" back into gaelic and it's "Mac Giolla Eoin" and there's an accent over the "O" in Eoin. I was just wondering how that is pronounced.

Thank you very much

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Aonghus
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Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 04:12 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

There shouldn't be an accent!

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Maidhc_Ó_g
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Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 10:35 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

That should be 'Mac Giolla Eán'. Eán is the older form of Eoin. It would translate as the son of the follower/devotee of St. John.

Muck Gill-uh Awn.

The vowel in the last word is in between the aw in saw and the o in Joe.

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Robert (Unregistered Guest)
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Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 12:10 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Pretend your name is Páid, i'd say:

Páid MacGiolla Eoin /pa:d' @k g'iL@ o:n'/, but to be frank, like how they pronounced it over time and geography, I'm ignorant

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Lucy (Unregistered Guest)
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Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 08:29 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

I see it given as Mac Giolla Eáin in AN SLOINNTEOIR GAEILGE by O'Droighneain.

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Dennis
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Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 08:42 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

The celebrated Scottish Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean was known in Gaelic as Somhairle MacGill-Eain.

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Ten7d5
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Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 10:36 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Thanks everyone. I know there are alot of Saint Johns, but would anyone know which Saint's followers the name came from? Would it be "Saint John of God", "Saint John of the Cross", etc?

Thanks again!

Chris



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