Message: "I don't think so. Katriona/Catriona are Gaelic names."

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I don't think so. Katriona/Catriona are Gaelic names.

by Haven (guest)

6/3/2004, 12:14 PM

in reply to a message by Éowyn

Katarina and Katya *may* be Russian, but Katriona is not.

Haven

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- Éowyn (guest) +3

6/3/2004, 5:45 PM

hmmmm... Well it certainly looks and sounds Russian to me. It reminds me a lot of the word matryoska, is that why? I know Katarina is, my great-grandmother was named that.

- Domhnall (guest) +2

6/3/2004, 8:00 PM

It is the bespoke 'io' in the middle of the name that marks "Catriona/Katriona" as a Gaelic derivative.

But the primary Gaelic forms are "Caitrìona" in Scottish and "Caitríona" in Irish. The first 'i' and the accent are integral.

- Caitriona (guest) +1

6/10/2004, 12:07 PM

Certainly is a gaelic name.... named after several generations of irish anscestors....

That is not saying that it is not a russian name too... but I would assume a russian version would be Katariana rather than the gaelic Caitriona/Katriona....

It is simply just the gaelic for Catherine... (although my Opa calles me KAYJA.... )

- Domhnall (guest)

6/12/2004, 1:38 AM

Though you mustn't mix Irish-Gaelic and Hiberno-English.

Katriona cannot be called Gaelic because of spelling rules: vowel agreement and no 'k.'

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