Aengus (given name)
| Pronunciation | Óengus |
|---|
Aengus is a masculine
Aonghus (although Aonghus is also used as an alternative spelling of Aengus in Ireland). The names are derived from the Old Irish
given name Oíngus.
These
Gaelic names are Anglicised as Angus
or, less frequently, as Aeneas.
The earliest form of these names occurs in
British
as Ungust. However, Oengus may have been used since the 5th century in Ireland, implying that the names Oengus and Onuist could have developed independently from each other.
Woolf derived all these names from Celtic *Oinogustos,AD 350 and AD 660, the Insular Celtic dialects underwent changes which included the loss of the final syllables and unstressed vowels, transforming *Oinogustos to *Oingust.[3]
People with the given name
- Aengus Finnan, (born 1972), Canadian folk musician
- Aengus Finucane, (1932–2009), Roman Catholic missionary of the Spiritan Fathers order
- Aengus Fanning, (1942–2012), Irish journalist and former editor of farming of the Irish Independent
- Aengus Mac Grianna (born 1964), newsreader
- Aengus Ó Snodaigh, (born 1964), Irish Sinn Féin politician
References
- ISBN 978-0-7486-1233-8
- Kneen, J.J. (1937). The Personal Names of the Isle of Man. Oxford University Press.
- ISBN 978-0-7486-1233-8
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