Mc's and O's
Crawford Brown Maridel J
Could someone please tell me which is which? I think Mc /Mac stands for
son of and O'for grandson of, but am not sure.
TYIA
Maridel
Seanette Blaylock
Maridel:
I'm pretty sure that Mc/Mac and O' *both* indicate "son of".
Seanette
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Merritt Mullen
In article <542_960...@catalina.org> Seanette Blaylock,
seanette...@catalina.org writes:
>Maridel:
> > Could someone please tell me which is which? I think
> > Mc /Mac stands for
> > son of and O'for grandson of, but am not sure.
> > TYIA
>
>I'm pretty sure that Mc/Mac and O' *both* indicate "son of".
>Seanette
>
I believe that whereas "Mac" means "son of", "O'" means "descendant
of".
Cheryl Singhal
SE>From: seanette...@catalina.org (Seanette Blaylock)
SE>Maridel:
SE> > Could someone please tell me which is which? I think
SE> > Mc /Mac stands for
SE> > son of and O'for grandson of, but am not sure.
SE> > TYIA
SE>I'm pretty sure that Mc/Mac and O' *both* indicate "son of".
Sorry, but M' Mc and Mac are "son of"; and O' is "grandson of."
* OLX 2.1 TD * Cheryl_...@cpafug.blkcat.com
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Crawford Brown Maridel J (3mj...@QLINK.QUEENSU.CA) wrote:
: Could someone please tell me which is which? I think Mc /Mac stands for
: son of and O'for grandson of, but am not sure.
/ / (these are accents, not apostrophes, BTW)
Mac (gen. mhic) and o (gen. ui) mean "son" and "grandson" respectively in
Gaelic (spelling and pronunciation vary from dialect to dialect).
Obviously they can both mean "male descendant" in a general sense as well,
as they are used in surnames. I've read that "o" tends to be more
general in normal use, but I don't know enough about the language to say
whether that's really accurate.
Ben Buckner
buc...@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu
Dan Murphy
> > I think Mc /Mac stands for son of and O'for grandson of,
> >but am not sure.
I thought it was the other way around----"O" was the son of and
"MAC" was the Grandson (or even a relative of). Does that mean I
am O'Murphy when I talk of my father and MacMurphy when I talk
about his father?