Re: Cymerians?

>> BTW - why is your name pronounced "kwarrie"? What happened to the
>> first -r-? Isn't Crary just an Anglicized form of Mac Ruidhri
>>anyway?
>
> Not heard that one before. The name is a late 18th century
> Anglicization of mac Quarrie, of the mac Quarrie formerly of Ulva

But Mac Quarrie is an Anglicization of Mac Guaire or Mac Guadhre "Son
of Guaire" - the -Q- isn't original (for anyone that it is wondering,
Archaic Irish -Qu- became -C- by the time of Old Irish - thus Arch
Ir. *maquos "son" became Old Irish mac).

-Chris Gwinn