Etymology

McClatchey

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Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Èitigh
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromMac Gille Èitigh“son of the ugly lad”
  2. English todayMcClatchey

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Northern Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Èitigh (“son of the ugly lad”), from gille (“boy, lad”) and èitigh (“unseemly, ugly”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.