Watching Jack de Quidt and their partner stream it was weird because the two of them are so unfamiliar with the period and just BUTCHER the pronunciation of all the Irish names but they are both very lovely and impossible to get angry with.
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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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Correct, it is. Apparently mág is a variant of mac in later Middle Irish but it is far from the norm. Anyway I got into it with someone who tried to argue that mág is from “mac uí” which it certainly isn’t. Lol.
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