English

MacNair

MacNair may come from Scottish Gaelic Mac Iain-uidhir.

Scottish GaelicmodernMac Iain-uidhirliterally ‘son of John the dun’uncertain
EnglishtodayMacNair

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

Scottish GaelicmodernMac Iain-uidhirliterally ‘son of John the dun’uncertain
EnglishtodayMacNair

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- ‘to leave behind, abandon’

go, gone, inherit, forego, 20 more

through Latin hēres ‘heir, heiress’

heritage, heir, hereditary, heredity, 2 more

Today it means

name A surname.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Scottish Gaelic Mac Iain-uidhir / MacNair

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