ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 1071 http://www.s-gabriel.org/1071 ************************************ ************************************************* * * * NOTE: Later research turned up additional * * information relevant to this report. * * See the end of the letter for details. * * * ************************************************* From: "S Friedemann" 12 Jul 1998 Greetings from the Academy of Saint Gabriel! You wanted to use the name as an Irish woman's name in the 11th to 15th centuries. Here is the information we have found. and were common Irish names throughout your period. [1] Both are excellent choices. *** See correction below for important information about is a Cornish name, first found in 1655, though the variant is found in 1296. [2] However, in our period, the Irish did not use middle names as we do today, so it would not be authentic for you to be called . In addition, names from different languages were rarely mixed: a Cornish name could not have been used with an otherwise Gaelic name. In the early part of your period, before 1200, "Aoife, daughter of Domhnall" would have been spelled , and pronounced \EE-fyeh IN-yen DOV-nil\. In later period, it would be , pronounced \EE-fyeh IN-yen DON-il\. The slash in the name represents an accent over the previous letter. We hope that this letter has been useful to you, and that you will not hesitate to write again if any part was unclear, or if you have further questions. Arval Benicoeur, Effric neyn Kenneoch, Evan da Collaureo, and Talan Gwynek provided research and/or commentary on this letter. For the Academy, --Aryanhwy Prytydes merch Catmael --------------------------------------------- References: [1] O/ Corra/in, Donnchadh and Fidelma Maguire, _Irish Names_ (Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1990). [2] Withycombe, E.G., _The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names_, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), p.217. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Correction, 18 Oct 2001, Arval: After a word ending in 'n', like , the letter 'D' does not lenite. Correction, 26 Jun 2002, Arval: We mis-spelled the citation as . Added the page number to note [2]. Correction, Arval, 20 Mar 2003: may not have been used by real people in our period. See the correction to 2028 for details.