Etymology

Hamish

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Today it means: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, of mostly Scottish usage. Full definition →

Scottish Gaelic Sheumais ← English James
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The story

  1. English · derived fromJames
  2. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromSheumais
  3. English todayHamish

Anglicized spelling of Scottish Gaelic Sheumais, vocative case of Seumas, from English James (see for more). Doublet of James etc.

Words from the same roots

EnglishJames all →

Seamus

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.