Eógan
Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Lang". is an early Irish male given name, which also has the hypocoristic and diminutive forms Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". and Script error: No such module "Lang".. The Modern Irish form of the name is Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "IPA".).
In Scottish Gaelic, the name is Script error: No such module "Lang". or Script error: No such module "Lang".. All of the above are often anglicised as Euan, Ewan, Ewen or, less often, Owen. The name in both Goidelic languages is generally considered a derivative of the Greek and Latin name Script error: No such module "Lang"., meaning "noble born".[1][2][3]
Etymology
The Script error: No such module "Lang". derives Eógan from the Primitive Irish *Script error: No such module "Lang".,[4] while others such as Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang"., in 1903) have stated that Script error: No such module "Lang". equates to Script error: No such module "Lang". and Eugene;[1] Dr Rachel Bromwich has commented that Script error: No such module "Lang". is a derivation of the Latin Script error: No such module "Lang".,[3] making these names long-attested in Gaelic areas, yet still based on loan-words.[2] Morgan notes that there are less likely alternative explanations and agrees with Dr Rachel Bromwich that Welsh Script error: No such module "Lang". “is normally latinized as Eugenius," and "both the Welsh and Irish forms are Latin derivatives".[2]
Eoghan has also been translated into English as "well born", in an example c. 1923, due to this Latin derivation, with the note that in common usage it is usually anglicised to "Eugene".[5] The name corresponds to the Welsh Script error: No such module "Lang"., often spelt Script error: No such module "Lang". in English;[1][2] as well to Ewen, Ewan and Euan. The most likely and widely accepted origin of the Old Welsh Script error: No such module "Lang". is, like the Old Irish Script error: No such module "Lang". also from Latin Script error: No such module "Lang"..[1]
List of people
Celtic nobility
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., king of Fernmag in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., king of Script error: No such module "Lang".
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, eponymous founder of the Script error: No such module "Lang". and Script error: No such module "Lang".
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., eponymous ancestor of the Script error: No such module "Lang".
- Script error: No such module "Lang". of Ardstraw (6th century), Irish saint
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (died 839), king of Fortriu
- Script error: No such module "Lang". of Argyll (Script error: No such module "Lang".) (died in or after 1268)
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., harper and a servant of the 9th Earl of Kildare
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., sometimes known as Script error: No such module "Lang".
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (fl. 934), King of the Cumbrians
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (died 1015), King of the Cumbrians
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (Template:Floruit), King of the Cumbrians
Recent times
- Eoghan Corry, Irish journalist and historian
- Eoghan Fitzsimons, former Attorney General of Ireland
- Eoghan Harris, Irish politician
- Eoghan Hickey, rugby player
- Eoghan Kenny, Irish politician
- Eoghan McDermott (MacDiarmada), TV broadcaster
- Eoghan McGettigan, Gaelic footballer
- Eoghan Quigg, Singer
See also
- Eòghann and Eòghan at List of Scottish Gaelic given names
- Egan, Eoin, Euan, Evan, Ewan, Ewen, Ewin, Ewing
- Script error: No such module "Lang".
- Script error: No such module "Lang".
- McEwan (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- MacEwen, Clan MacEwen
- McCown (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Clan MacCowan
- Clan Ewing
- Clan Ewen of Otter
- Eóganachta
- Irish name
Notes
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- ↑ a b c d Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912), reprinted for Clearfield Company, INC by Genealogical Publishing Co. INC, Baltimore 1995, 1996. Cormic gives this origin for Eogan (one MS, Eogen); and Zimmer considers Owen to be borrowed from Latin Script error: No such module "Lang"., as noted by MacBain, p. 400. The mediaeval Latinization of Owen as Script error: No such module "Lang". led to a belief that the etymology was the Welsh and Breton Script error: No such module "Lang"., "lamb". With much stronger reason it was at one time considered that the name represented Irish Script error: No such module "Lang". = Gael. Script error: No such module "Lang". [f. Old Irish Script error: No such module "Lang". Welsh Script error: No such module "Lang"., young], ‘youth’. Surnames of the United Kingdom cites Tomás Ua Concheanainn, Script error: No such module "Lang". (p. 126), that "Script error: No such module "Lang". is a diminutive of Script error: No such module "Lang"., = Owain, Eugene"
- ↑ a b c d Morgan, T.J. and Morgan, Prys, Welsh Surnames, University of Wales, 1985, Owain (Owen, Bowen, Ednowain). According to T.J. Morgan in Welsh Surnames (page 172/173) Owen is a derivation of the Latin Script error: No such module "Lang". > Old Welsh Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". ... 'variously written in Middle Welsh as Script error: No such module "Lang".. LL gives the names Script error: No such module "Lang".. The corresponding form in Irish is Script error: No such module "Lang".. Additionally, another Latinized variation of the name Owen is Script error: No such module "Lang". in certain parish registers.”
- ↑ a b As cited by T.J. Morgan in Welsh Surnames, page 172
- ↑ Macalister, R. A. S. Script error: No such module "Lang". Vol. I. (1945) Dublin: Stationery Office
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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