Aulay
Aulay is a Scottish masculine given name. It is an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic Amhladh,[1] Amhlaidh,[1] Amhlaigh, and Amhlaibh.[2] The standard Irish Gaelic form of these names is Amhlaoibh (pronounced [ˈəulˠiːvʲ],[1] Munster Irish: [ˈəulˠiː]);[3] which can be Anglicised as Auliffe[1] and Humphrey.[4]
The Old Irish personal name Amlaíb is a Gaelicised form of the Old Norse Óláfr, and is recorded in the Annals of Ulster as being introduced into Ulster by "Amlaíb, son of the king of Lochlann"[5][6] In the 9th century, Óláfr may have been pronounced more like the Old Norse Áleifr.[7] A Classical Gaelic form of this Old Irish name is Amhlaíbh.
The older Irish Gaelic names Amalgaid[4] and Amhalghaidh[4] (pronounced "owl-ghee"),[3] were borne by an early king of Munster, and an early king of Connacht. Even though these names were of a different origin than the above Gaelicised Norse names, they were "totally confused" in the later Middle Ages with them.[4] In later times, Amalgaid and Amhalghaidh were Anglicised as Auley; as well as Awley, which was a spelling commonly used by the Magawleys of Calry.[4]
In the Irish counties of Antrim and Armagh, Amley is found as a variant of Aulay or Auley and gives rise to the surname MacAmley or Macamley.[8]
Notable people with these names
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[edit | edit source]- Aulay
- Aulay Macaulay (died 1788), an English inventor of a system of shorthand
- Sir Aulay MacAulay of Ardincaple (died 1617), a Scottish clan chief
- Aulay MacAulay Morrison (1863–1942), a Canadian lawyer and politician
- Amhlaoibh
- Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin (1780–1838), an Irish language author, linen draper, politician, and one time hedge school master
- Amalgaid
- Amalgaid mac Congalaig (died 718), an Irish king of Brega, from the Uí Chonaing sept of Cnogba (Knowth) of the Síl nÁedo Sláine branch of the southern Ui Neill
- Amalgaid mac Éndai (died 601), an Irish king of Munster, from the Eóganacht Áine branch of the Eoganachta
- Amalgaid mac Fiachrae (died 440), an Irish king of Connacht, from the Ui Fiachrach sept
- Amlaíb
- Amlaíb Conung (died c.875), a Norse or Norse-Gael leader in Ireland and Scotland in the years after 850.
- Amlaíb mac Sitriuc, the son of the Norse-Gael king of Dublin, Sigtrygg Silkbeard, a member of the Uí Ímharr dynasty
- Amlaíb Cuarán, a 10th-century Norse-Gael who was king of York and king of Dublin
- Amlaíb of Scotland (died 977), was king of Scots during the 970s
- Amlaíb mac Gofraid (died 941), a member of the Norse-Gael Uí Ímair dynasty, was king of Dublin from 934 to 941
- Olaf II of Norway, the Norse-Gaels called him Amlaíb
- Amlaíb Ua Donnabáin (died 1201), king of Uí Chairpre Áebda slain by William de Burgh and the O'Briens
Within a patronymic name
[edit | edit source]- Amalgado
- Conaing mac Amalgado (died 742), an Irish king of Brega, from the Uí Chonaing sept of Cnogba (Knowth) of the Síl nÁedo Sláine branch of the southern Ui Neill
- Cúán mac Amalgado (died 641), an Irish king of Munster, from the Eóganacht Áine branch of the Eóganachta
- Dúngal mac Amalgado (died 759), an Irish king of Brega, from the Uí Chonaing sept of Cnogba (Knowth) of the Síl nÁedo Sláine branch of the southern Ui Neill
Other
[edit | edit source]- Cín Lae Amhlaoibh, an Irish language diary written by Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin
- Dónall Mac Amhlaigh (1926–1989), an Irish writer
- Dùn Anlaimh, a crannog located on the Hebridean island of Coll, Scotland
- Dunan Aula, a cist located in Craignish, Argyll and Bute, Scotland; traditionally named after "Olaf, son of the king of Denmark"
- Mac Amhlaoibh and Mac Amhalghaidh (Irish septs), Irish septs and clans
- Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (born 1978), an Irish musician and singer from County Kerry, Ireland
"Hamlet" hypothesis
[edit | edit source]Hugh Kenner (1989) has argued that the name Amloði (the Old Icelandic form of the name Hamlet) originates with the Irish form Amhlaoibh.[9]
See also
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