English
Murray
Murray comes from Medieval Latin Moravia, and goes back to Scottish Gaelic Moireibh.
- Scottish GaelicmodernMoireibh
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500Moravia
- Englishearliest quotation 1992Murray
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Scottish GaelicmodernMoireibh
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500Moravia
- Englishearliest quotation 1992Murray
Earliest quotation: 1992, Martha Grimes, The End of the Pier: “Murray was the sort of name he might have…”
A compound of *mori ‘sea’ + *trebā ‘settlement’
Proto-Indo-European *mer- ‘sea, lake, wetland’
Proto-Indo-European *móri ‘sea’
Proto-Celtic *mori ‘sea’
Proto-Indo-European *treb- ‘dwelling, settlement’
Proto-Celtic *trebā ‘settlement’
The story
Scottish surname derived from the place name Moray in northeastern Scotland, from Medieval Latin Moravia, Morauia, from Scottish Gaelic Moireibh, Moireabh, Moreb, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *mori (‘sea’) + *trebā (‘settlement’).
Every English word from Scottish Gaelic Moireibh
Today it means
name A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Scottish Gaelic Moireibh / Murray