Re: Gaelic names for Ladies

The Highlander wrote:

By God, I found it in my Collins German dictionary!

It puts an h at the end of the Vie - Vieh - cattle and the part that
obviously attracted you to him - Viehisch - bestial!

Some of the ancestors did spell it with an h.

That must be a very old word indeed. I checked cattle in Sanskit -
pasú - no hint of a relationship there.

P can change B, and B to V.
'Pasu' may be related to 'beast'/'bestial'.
'Beast' may be related to 'vieh'.

Well, there's no problems with a translation there as all norther
Europeans were herdsmen for millennia, Gaels included. Viemeister is a
word you will be highly familiar with - Buchaille, so you are:

Bean Iain Buachaille Mòr - Wife of John the Big Herdsman


Sheila
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