Etymology

McCosh

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Irish Mac Coise
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromMac Coise“son of Cos”
  2. English todayMcCosh

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Northern Irish Mac Coise (“son of Cos”), a byname deriving from cos (“foot, leg”).

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