Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 60010
Date: 2008-09-14



----- Original Message ----
From: Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...>
To: Andrew Jarrette <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:21:53 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia

At 11:02:58 AM on Sunday, September 14, 2008, Andrew
Jarrette wrote:

[...]

> P.S. to Rick: what I do know about the McMillans (and I
> don't know why some spell it MacMillan, and whether they
> are related (cf. Harold MacMillan, former PM of Great
> Britain)

<MacMillan>, <Macmillan>, <McMillan>, <M'Millan>, etc. are
all the same name and can all appear in a single family.

> is that their name is from <mac maolain> which means "son
> of the priest".

Not quite: English <Macmillan> actually represents two Scots
Gaelic names, <mac Mhaolain> and <mac Ghille Mhaoil>. The
first is 'son of Maolan'; <Maolan> corresponds to Irish
<Maolán> and is a diminutive of <Maol> 'bald, tonsured', Old
Irish <Máel> 'crop-headed, shorn' (and by extension 'bald'),
and the whole is 'son of the bald or tonsured one'.

The second is 'son of Gille Maol'; <Gille Maol> corresponds
to Irish <Giolla Maol> 'bald or tonsured lad' (OIr <gilla
máel>), making the whole 'son of the bald or tonsured lad'.
(Another interpretation is grammatically possible but I
think much less likely.)

Yes, it means "tonsured" but only monks and priests were tonsured. And I imagine that of the 2, only priests had the means to bring up children




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