The story
- Irish · derived fromÓ hAichir“descendant of Aichear”
- English todayHehir
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hAichir (“descendant of Aichear”), a byname from aichear (“keen, sharp”).
Words from the same roots
IrishÓ hAichir all →
O'Hare
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.