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O'Nile

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Etymology

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Anglicisation of an Irish Ó Niall, surname meaning "descendant of Niall".

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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O'Nile

  1. a surname, equivalent to English O'Neill
    • 1987, The Manuscript of Jacob Poole's Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy:
      O'Nile
      O'Neill

References

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  • T. P. Dolan (1987) Eighteenth-Century lreland / lris an dá chultúr Vol. 2, Eighteenth-Century lreland Society, page 205