2026-07-12 15:42 UTC
@Barbara_Sliwinska@mastodon.social @RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo You could argue Ó ‘grandson, grandchild, descendant, grand-daughter’ (or Ua, but not not O’ – that’s just a spelling used in Anglicizations) to be gender-neutral as the noun has been used referring to women for centuries too, see https://dil.ie/42573.
Women traditionally take patronymic Ní (= inghean uí ‘(the) daughter of the descendant of…’) and when called after a husband, (bean) Uí ‘(the wife) of Ó…’.
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@silmeth@mstdn.social 2026-07-12 15:50
@Barbara_Sliwinska@mastodon.social @RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo So it’s generally just that women traditionally took names with that one additional level of indirection: either sayong ‘the daughter of (a man named Ó…)’ traditionally or sometimes (rarely) using their husband’s name as ‘(the wife) of…’
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@RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo 2026-07-12 15:45
@silmeth@mstdn.social @Barbara_Sliwinska@mastodon.social Thanks! That's super helpful!