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It doesn't really make sense. Presumably the person was equating cor or corb with the word for raven found in Corbin or the Scottish word corbie. I take it that's ultimately from the Latin. The problem is that Cormac is a Gaelic name and the mac element is Gaelic. The Irish Gaelic word for raven is fiach, as in the name Fiachra.

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This message was edited 11/27/2008, 4:24 AM