English
Maloney
Maloney comes from Irish Ó Maol Dhomhnaigh ‘descendant of the devotee of Sunday’.
- Irishc. 1200–presentÓ Maol Dhomhnaigh‘descendant of the devotee of Sunday’
- EnglishtodayMaloney
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Irishc. 1200–presentÓ Maol Dhomhnaigh‘descendant of the devotee of Sunday’
- EnglishtodayMaloney
A compound of maol ‘devotee’ + Domhnach ‘Sunday’
Proto-Celtic *mailos ‘bald’
Old Irish máel ‘bald, hornless, blunt’
Irish maol ‘devotee’
Late Latin diēs Dominicus ‘Sunday’
Old Irish domnach ‘Sunday’
Irish Domhnach ‘Sunday’
The story
Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maol Dhomhnaigh (‘descendant of the devotee of Sunday’), from maol (‘devotee’) and Domhnach (‘Sunday’).
Every English word from Irish Ó Maol Dhomhnaigh
Today it means
name A surname from Irish.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Irish Ó Maol Dhomhnaigh / Maloney