[Design-team] Concepts for F14

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Onyeibo,

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:42 +0100, Onyeibo Oku wrote:
> Meanwhile here is an intel on the name Laughlin:
> 
> Meaning of "Laughlin"
> Irish name
> In Irish, the name Laughlin means- servant. 
> The name Laughlin orginated as an Irish name. 
> The name Laughlin is most often used as a boy name or male name.
> 
> Irish Name Meaning - servant
> Origin - Ireland

So it seems Laughlin is an Anglicization of *two* different names!
Indeed one of them, ó Máeilsheáchlainn in Gaeilge, means "servant of St.
Secundums." Malachy is a common contemporary firstname form of this
name.

The other is Ó Lochlainn in Gaeilge, for which the meaning is
'descendant of the Viking', literally 'descendant of the lake/fjord
lands' [2,3]. 

I put together a few galleries of CC-BY and CC-BY-SA Fjord photos :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mairin/galleries/72157623919296213/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mairin/galleries/72157624043764928/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mairin/galleries/72157623919464721/

~m

[1]
http://www.libraryireland.com/names/men/maeleachlainn-maelsheachlainn-melaghlin.php

[2]
http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&Surname=McLaughlin

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLoughlin