British names: Torquil?!?

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, <silverdragon at e...> wrote:
> Terry LJ wrote:
> > character's name is Tor, short for Torquil.  ....  How would 
> > you pronounce it??

I don't know the correct pronunciation, but my mind pronounces it 
like Torkle ... in my accent OR and AH sound quite different, but in 
accents in which they sound the same, I guess Torkle would sound 
like Tackle.
> 
> I'm unsure of the pronounciation of the name, but apparently 
> (according to my books) it comes from the Scottish Gaelic form of 
> the Old Norse name Thoreketill, probably meaning "Thor's Cauldron".

I thought the Norse name was Thorkil, so I checked and found that 
you are right: http://www.behindthename.com/ says:
>TORQUIL   m   Scottish
>Scottish form of TORKEL 
>TORKEL   m   Swedish
> From the Old Norse name Þórketill meaning "Thor's cauldron" from
> the name of the Norse god Þórr (see THOR) combined with ketill 
> "stone". 
("Stone" may be a typo, from Thorstein slightly lower on the same 
page, as ketill sure looks like "kettle". Thor's kettle.)