ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 2021 http://www.s-gabriel.org/2021 ************************************ From: "Sara L Friedemann" 3 Apr 2000 Greetings from the Academy of Saint Gabriel! You asked for help creating an authentic medieval feminine Gaelic name, with or as your given name and or as your father's name. Here is a brief letter with the information we have found. Both and are excellent choices for your given name--the slash represents an accent over the previous letter. is a shortened form of the name . It has been in use since at least the 13th century. was the name of an abbess of Kildare who died in 805; we have not found any later examples of the name. [1] and were also fairly common masculine names in medieval Ireland. [1] The Irish language changed over the 1000-year period that the SCA covers. Starting around the year 1200, many words changed their spelling to reflect the changes in the language. Below are the different spellings of the surnames meaning "daughter of Fi/nghin" and "daughter of Eochaid," as well as your chosen given names, for pre-1200 and post-1200. Note that is only appropriate from the 13th century on, and that is only appropriate for the earlier part of the period. [1,2] pre-1200 post-1200 ---------- ----------- (---) Nuala Finnguala Fionnghuala Fi/ne (---) ingen Eochada inghean Eochadha ingen F.i/ngin inghean Fhi/nghin The represents an with a dot over it; in later period, this was spelled . Put together, a name such as or would be fine choices. Here is a list of the pronunciations of each element: pronunciations: --------------- Nuala \NOO-@-l@\ Finnguala \FIN-GHOO-@-l@\ Fionnghuala \fy@-NOO-@-l@\ Fi/ne \FEE-n~@\ ingen \EEN-y@n\ inghean \EEN-y@n\ Eochada \EKH-@-dh@\ Eochadha \OHKH-@-gh@ F.i/ngin \EEN-y@n\ Fhinghin \IN-y@n\ The \@\ represents the vowel sound spelled in or , the \kh\ is the hard, rasping sound in Scottish and German , \gh\ is the voiced version of \kh\, \dh\ is pronounced like in , and the \n~\ is pronounced like the in Spanish . We hope that this brief letter has been useful to you, and that you will not hesitate to write again if any part of this letter was unclear or if you have further questions. Research and commentary on this letter was provided by Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, Arval Benicoeur, Juliana de Luna, Talan Gwynek, Effrick neyn Kennyeoch, and Julie Stampnitzky. For the Academy, ~Aryanhwy merch Catmael, 03Apr00 --------------------------------------- References: [1] O/ Corra/in, Donnchadh and Fidelma Maguire, _Irish Names_ (Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1990). s.nn. Eochaid, Fhingin, Finnguala, Fine [2] Woulfe, Patrick, _Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall: Irish Names and Surnames_ (Kansas City: Irish Genealogical Foundation). s.n. [3] O'Brien, M. A., ed., _Corpus Genealogiarum Hiberniae_ (Dublin: The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976).