Matheson Collection > Gaelic grammar, containing the parts of speech and the general principles of phonology and etymology, with a chapter on proper and place names

Mac Cardaidh MacHardy, Mac na Ceàrd dubha or umha
50« of the blacksmiths or copper-smiths
Mac Codrum (N. Got-ormr good serpent, holy serpent) — Mac-
Codrum Gufj--
Mac Cormaig, Cormac (corb mac charioteer) — Cormack,
Mac Corniic
Mac Corcadail (Mac Thorketill son of Thor's kettle) — Mac-
Corquodale, MacCorkindale, McCorkle
Mac Cruimein (N. Ruman, Hromundr, but c j, as moLe "^
likely Crim than fox § 1 12, 2) — MacCrimmon,
Mac Criomihatnn
Mac Cuaig Mac Cuaig : Anglicised Cook
Mac Cuimrid (W. Cymro Welshman, *com-brogo-s) — Mont-
gomery, McGommery
Mac Cuinn v. Conn
Mac Cullach (Mac-Cu-Uladh son of the Dog of Ulster, A.U.
1072) — MacCulloch, Culloch ; Mac gille Ulaidh Mac-
Lulaich
Maceachuinn, Mac-Each-dhuinn {son of the horse-lord) —
Maceachan
Mac-Each-ri {son of the horse-king, A.U. 1102) — Mac Kechnie
Mac-Each-thighearn {son of the horse-lord) — MacKechern
Mac Fhitheachain {son of the little raven) — Mackichan
Mac Fhraing, Mac Fhraingein {son of S. Francis) — Rankein,
MacCracken (Galloway)
Mac Gille MacGill {a curtailment of a name, e.g.) Mac-gille-
maol MacMillan : v. Mac, § 107, 12
Mac gille — some adjj., notably names for colours following a
personal name, are translated into surnames, and com-
pounded with mac and mac gille :
fear (e.g. Iain) ban Whyte, Mac bain Macbain, Bain ;
Mac gille bhàin MacElvaine
buidhe Yellow ([eos), MacJDuidhe Bowie;
Mac gille bhuidhe MacElvee, Gilbey ;
O gille bhuidhe O'Gilvie, Ogilvie
dubh Black, Dow, transliterated Dove,
whence Mac Calmain ; Mac duibh
Mac Duff, Duff; Mac gille dhuibh
Mac Gillewie