Talk:Vera Moray/@comment-6301921-20150121135243/@comment-26955746-20150121211917

That's some interesting additional info Geist!

One thing though; I don't think we need to distinguish between the Scottish and Irish translations of the name (not including the modern Irish translation). As I mentioned before, "Dubhghoill" originates from sometime between the years 900-1100. During this period a version of the Irish language called "Middle Irish" was spoken. The Irish and Scottish languages that exist today are both derived from Middle Irish; so basically when this term was in use, there was no distinction between Irish and Scottish (well no version Scottish Gaelic even existed at the time.)

So we could rewrite that last part to say something like "However, the name most likely originates from the old Irish term "Dubhghaill", meaning "dark foreigners" or "dark strangers"." (also as I mentioned earlier the extra 'i' doesn't make much difference; its essentially the same word). Maybe we could mention the modern surnames that have been derived from this, such as Douglas, Dougal and Doyle, just to show that it relates to the Scottish language aswell?