Etymology

McGahan

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Irish Mac Eacháin ← Old Irish ech
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The story

  1. Old Irish · derived fromech“horse”
  2. Irish · derived fromEachaidh
  3. Irish · derived fromMac Eacháin“son of Eachán”
  4. English todayMcGahan

From Irish Mac Eacháin (“son of Eachán”), from Irish Eachaidh, from Old Irish ech (“horse”).

Words from the same roots

IrishMac Eacháin all →

McCaughan

Old Irishech all →

haugh

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.