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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]

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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

Personal name

Aulay
Amhlaoibh
Amalgaid
Amlaíb

Within a patronymic name

Amalgado

Other

"Hamlet" hypothesis

Hugh Kenner (1989) has argued that the name Amloði (the Old Icelandic form of the name Hamlet ) originates with the Irish form Amhlaoibh. [9]

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  2. ↑ Dunkling, Leslie (1978). Scottish Christian Names: an A-Z of First Names. Johnston and Bacon. pp. 24, 143.
  3. 1 2 Cresswell, Julia (1996). Irish First Names. Collins Gem. HarperCollins. p. 269. ISBN   978-0-00-470942-0.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Ó Corráin, Donnchadh; Maguire, Fidelma (1981). Gaelic personal names. Academy Press. p. 22. ISBN   978-0-906187-39-5.
  5. ↑ Stafford, Pauline, ed. (2009). A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland c.500-1100. Blackwell Publishing. pp. 258–259. ISBN   978-1-4051-0628-3.
  6. ↑ "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Amlaíb / Amhlaoibh" . Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  7. ↑ Woolf, Alex (2007). From Pictland to Alba, 789–1070 . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p.  108. ISBN   978-0-7486-1233-8.
  8. ↑ Edward MacLysaght, Book of Irish Surnames, MacCamley
  9. ↑ Kenner, Hugh (1989). A Colder Eye. Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins Paperbacks. pp. 82–83. ISBN   0-8018-3838-X.
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