English
McEldowney
McEldowney comes from Irish Mac Giolla Dhomhnaigh ‘son of the lad of the Sunday’.
- Irishc. 1200–presentMac Giolla Dhomhnaigh‘son of the lad of the Sunday’
- EnglishtodayMcEldowney
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Irishc. 1200–presentMac Giolla Dhomhnaigh‘son of the lad of the Sunday’
- EnglishtodayMcEldowney
A compound of giolla ‘lad, boy’ + Domhnach ‘Sunday’
Proto-Germanic *geldaną ‘to pay, have value’
Proto-Germanic *gildiz ‘valuable, wholesome, precious’
Old Norse gildr ‘brawny, stout, of full value’
Middle Irish gilla ‘a youth of an age to bear arms’
Irish giolla ‘lad, boy’
Late Latin diēs Dominicus ‘Sunday’
Old Irish domnach ‘Sunday’
Irish Domhnach ‘Sunday’
The story
Anglicized form of Northern Irish Mac Giolla Dhomhnaigh (‘son of the lad of the Sunday’), from giolla (‘lad, boy’) and Domhnach (‘Sunday’).
Every English word from Irish Mac Giolla Dhomhnaigh
Today it means
name A surname from Irish.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Irish Mac Giolla Dhomhnaigh / McEldowney