ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 1223 http://www.s-gabriel.org/1223 ************************************ From: "S Friedemann" 7 Sep 1998 Greetings! You wanted to use the name or some variant for an Irish woman's name between 1200 and 1400. Here is the information we have found. is not a Gaelic name; it is a Scottish and northern English form of the Norman name . The Anglo-Normans introduced the name to the Irish, who used the name as or (the slash represents an accent over the previous letters). While it was never too common, it would be a fine Irish name for the later end of your period. [1,2] It is pronounced \AN-NAH-bl@\, where the @ represents the initial vowel sound in . For information on how to complete your name, we suggest you read the following article in our library. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us again. "Quick & Easy Gaelic Bynames" http://www.stanford.edu/~skrossa/medievalscotland/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames/index.html We hope that this letter has been useful to you, and that you will not hesitate to write again if any part was unclear or if you have further questions. Research and commentary on this letter was provided by Arval Benicoeur, Talan Gwynek, and Walraven van Nijmegen. For the Academy, --Aryanhwy merch Catmael September 7, 1998 --------------------------------------- References: [1] Woulfe, Patrick, _Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall: Irish Names and Surnames_ (Kansas City: Irish Genealogical Foundation). [2] O/ Corra/in, Donnchadh and Fidelma Maguire, _Irish Names_ (Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1990).