McLagan

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 110322

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" <Aisbelmon at h...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cybermarmy" <marmys at b...> 
> wrote:
> > Bill <sixsunflowers at y...> wrote:
> > > McLagan....
> > > 
> > > Mc/Mac are Gaelic prefixes to surnames equivalent to "son" in 
> > > English and other Germanic languages > > 
> > > Lagan comes from an old Scottish word meaning "Hollow."  
> 
> > 
> > cybermarmy:
> > The "Hollow" part can't just be a coincidence (Godric's Hollow). 
> > She's always giving us hint of some kind. Maybe, just 
> > maybe, this McLagan has something to do with the HBP. Just a 
hunch.
> > 
> 
> Valky:
> I think more than a hunch cybermarmy! Riotously, here is me 
doubting 
> all morning the threads about the lionlike man being McClaggan, I 
> will presently begin eating my hat.........
> 
> Why is JkR being so generous though I need to wonder. Godrics kin 
> spelled out in so many letters for us, it just smacks of something 
> we are given too easily.


Valky bemusedly removing hat from mouth:
Its not over yet. I sought the information that Bill is offering, 
personally, and came up with a different set of results.  
Probably because I researched the meaning of Claggan as opposed to 
Lagan a small discrepancy that has made much difference.

Claggan, I have found in two sources, neither of which I am certain 
are entirely reliable, but nevertheless each claim to have some 
knowledge of the gaelic and scot meanings of the name.

The first of the two claims that Claggan is a gaelic word for Bell.
Dead ringer? Doppleganger anyone? (Jk is not an Aussie so its not 
the head of the shearing shed...)
and BTW my sister thinks that the gracefully loping yet limping 
mystery fellow is a dead ringer for Crookshanks.

The second source claims entirely to the contrary that Claggan has 
its origins in the word for skull and in place names is telling of a 
round hill. This one puts a new spin on Mr McClaggan, didn't LV's 
muggle relatives live on a round hill in Little Hangleton... Perhaps 
McClaggan is *not* one of the good guys.

Mores the point, who here is particularly fluent in the old 
scot/gaelic tongue and can confirm or deny either of the meanings 
for me.