Fòram na Gàidhlig

I personally hate the Manx spelling system for the reason it's too Anglo Saxon looking!

That's why it's found principally among children, rather than among t*tt**-seakers in East Ham like certain other languages.

*Runs and hides in a corner, dodging claymore swipes*

Ro anmoch! Ùps...

SaorAlba wrote:I didn't think that there would be a Gaidhlig equivalent of it, but since it originated up north, I wasn't sure.

North? Dundee's <i>east</i>, a charaid! There hee-haw Gallick up thon wey! (Weel, no fur a wee bittie, anyhou.)

Just because Kidd isn't derived from gaelic, doesn't mean there's no Gaelic equivalent.

Names like MacLeod, Kerr etc are from Old Norse, so we could always just make a name -MacLeòid, MacCeàirr

Like Nic a' Mhinn. (See "meann) for "kid" as in young goat

Níall Beag wrote:

SaorAlba wrote:I didn't think that there would be a Gaidhlig equivalent of it, but since it originated up north, I wasn't sure.

North? Dundee's <i>east</i>, a charaid! There hee-haw Gallick up thon wey! (Weel, no fur a wee bittie, anyhou.)[/quote

True. But move just a little bit north and west, and you find The Angus Glens, and then a little further into East Perthshire...where pockets of Gaelic speakers were around until the 1960s, or a little later.

An Gobaire wrote:Just because Kidd isn't derived from gaelic, doesn't mean there's no Gaelic equivalent.

Names like MacLeod, Kerr etc are from Old Norse, so we could always just make a name -MacLeòid, MacCeàirr

Like Nic a' Mhinn. (See "meann) for "kid" as in young goat

Very true, but I think Kidd is one example where there isn't a Gaelic equivalent. Mac a' Mhinn would be making it up which is not the done thing really.

If that was the case my surname would be: Mac a' Chùirn!

...and Nelson Mandela would be MacNéill Cnò-Almoin!

Stìophan wrote:

An Gobaire wrote:Just because Kidd isn't derived from gaelic, doesn't mean there's no Gaelic equivalent.

Names like MacLeod, Kerr etc are from Old Norse, so we could always just make a name -MacLeòid, MacCeàirr

Like Nic a' Mhinn. (See "meann) for "kid" as in young goat

Very true, but I think Kidd is one example where there isn't a Gaelic equivalent. Mac a' Mhinn would be making it up which is not the done thing really.

If that was the case my surname would be: Mac a' Chùirn!

Bha mi an dùil gur e Crìsdean MacMhìcheil a bh' annadsa?

Níall Beag wrote:...and Nelson Mandela would be MacNéill Cnò-Almoin!