ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 1378 http://www.s-gabriel.org/1378 ************************************ 15 Nov 1998 From: (Josh Mittleman) Greetings from the Academy of Saint Gabriel! You asked whether was used as a feminine name between 1000 and 1350. This letter is a brief answer to your question. is a masculine Gaelic name, often anglicized as . It was pronounced roughly \KAHL-in\ [1]. The most similar feminine name we found is the Gaelic , pronounced \K#L-in\ or \K#L-yun\ [2]. The symbol \#\ represents a vowel not found in English. You can produce an approximation by saying the vowel in without rounding your lips at all. This name has been anglicized as [3]. The spelling would have been used after 1200 or so; earlier in period, it would have been . The slash represents an accent on the . We did not find any other period woman's name pronounced \KAY-lin\ or \KEE-lin\. For more information on Gaelic names, we recommend some articles on the web: Quick and Easy Gaelic Bynames http://www.stanford.edu/~skrossa/medievalscotland/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames/ Feminine Names From the Index To O'Brien's "Corpus Genealogiarum Hiberniae" http://www.us.itd.umich.edu/~ximenez/s.gabriel/docs/irish-obrien.html These articles contain explanations of how medieval Irish women's names were constructed. We hope this brief letter has been useful. Please write us again if you have any questions. I was assisted in researching and writing this letter by Effrick neyn Kenneoch and Ceatta o Gulcleth. For the Academy, Arval Benicoeur 15 Nov 1998 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - References [1] Skene, William F., "Genealogies of the Highland Clans, Extracted from Ancient Gaelic MSS.: 1. Gaelic MS. Written circa A.D. 1450, with a Translation,", pp 50-62, and "Genealogies of the Highland Clans, Extracted from Ancient Gaelic MSS.: 2. Gaelic MS. Written circa A.D. 1450, continued," pp. 357-60, _Collectanea de Rebus Albanicis consisting of Original Papers and Documents Relating to the History of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland_, ed. The Iona Club (Edinburgh: Thomas G. Stevenson, 1847). [2] O/ Corra/in, Donnchadh and Fidelma Maguire, _Irish Names_ (Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1990). [3] Woulfe, Patrick, _Irish Names for Children_ (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1974).