Etymology

MacAlpine

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

Scottish Gaelic Mac Ailpein
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · borrowed fromMac Ailpein
  2. English todayMacAlpine

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic Mac Ailpein, from Proto-Celtic.

Words from the same roots

Scottish GaelicMac Ailpein all →

McAlpine

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.