A friend of mine apparently interviewed their historical advisor, but something tells me this person isn’t an early medievalist.
Well nic is late, what would have been used was ingen, but mac I have never seen as mag, because mac comes from macc, and mag in Old Irish means plain or field. There were a lot of variations but none with a g.
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Nic is actually pretty definitively modern Irish I think.
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Nic is also etymologically of a different origin though, no? I had always assumed it was a contraction of 'iníon mhic', in a similar way that ní is a contraction of iníon (or however it's spelled in middle/old Irish)
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