Etymology

Gilmour

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Today it means: A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic. Full definition →

Scottish Gaelic gille
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · borrowed fromgille“servant lad”
  2. English todayGilmour

Variant of Gilmore, from Scottish Gaelic gille (“servant lad”) + Moire (“Mary mother of Jesus”).

Words from the same roots

Scottish Gaelicgille all →

Gilmoregillie

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.