ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 1380 http://www.s-gabriel.org/1380 ************************************ ************************************************* * * * NOTE: Later research turned up additional * * information relevant to this report. * * See the end of the letter for details. * * * ************************************************* From: "S Friedemann" 26 Nov 1998 Greetings from the Academy of Saint Gabriel! You wanted to know if Irish feminine name would have been used between 1150 and 1300. Here is the information we have found. Your name is very nearly correct for the early part of your period. With two small corrections, it will be entirely authentic. was the name of the wife of a high king who died in 665; there were also two saints by this name. [1,2] It would be appropriate for the beginning of your period, but the later in period you go, the less likely it was still in use. It was pronounced \TYAH-war\ or \CHAH-war\. It was not pronounced \te-MARE\, as it is commonly mispronounced in English. The name was a fairly common name in early Ireland. [1]. It is a fine choice for your father's name. The name "Temair, daughter of Donngal," would be . [3] (Irish grammar requires the change from to ; it is analogous to the difference between and .) This would be pronounced \TYAH-war EEN-yen DOHN-gh@-ly@\. \ly\ is pronounced as in , and \gh\ is the voiced version of the hard, rasping \ch\ sound found in Scottish or German . 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 Effrick neyn Kenneoch. For the Academy, --Arianwy Prydyddes ferch Cadfael November 26, 1998 --------------------------------------- References: [1] O/ Corra/in, Donnchadh and Fidelma Maguire, _Irish Names_ (Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1990). [2] O/ Riain, Pa/draig, ed., _Corpus Genealogiarum Sanctorum Hiberniae_ (Dublin: The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1985). [3] O'Brien, M. A., ed., _Corpus Genealogiarum Hiberniae_ (Dublin: The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Correction, 18 Oct 2001, Arval: After a word ending in 'n', like , the letters 'D' and 'T' do not lenite.