Editing Scottish Gaelic (section)

====Personal names====
Gaelic has its own version of European-wide names which also have English forms, for example: {{lang|gd|Iain}} (John), {{lang|gd|Alasdair}} (Alexander), {{lang|gd|Uilleam}} (William), {{lang|gd|Catrìona}} (Catherine), {{lang|gd|Raibeart}} (Robert), {{lang|gd|Cairistìona}} (Christina), {{lang|gd|Anna}} (Ann), {{lang|gd|Màiri}} (Mary), {{lang|gd|Seumas}} (James), {{lang|gd|Pàdraig}} (Patrick) and {{lang|gd|Tòmas}} (Thomas).
Not all traditional Gaelic names have direct equivalents in English: {{lang|gd|Oighrig}}, which is normally rendered as ''Euphemia'' (Effie) or ''Henrietta'' (Etta) (formerly also as Henny or even as Harriet), or, {{lang|gd|Diorbhal}}, which is "matched" with ''Dorothy'', simply on the basis of a certain similarity in spelling. Many of these traditional Gaelic-only names are now regarded as old-fashioned, and hence are rarely or never used.

Some names have come into Gaelic from [[Old Norse]]; for example, {{lang|gd|Somhairle}} ( < {{lang|non|Somarliðr}}), {{lang|gd|Tormod}} (< {{lang|non|Þórmóðr}}), {{lang|gd|Raghnall}} or {{lang|gd|Raonull}} (< {{lang|non|Rǫgnvaldr}}), {{lang|gd|Torcuil}} (< {{lang|non|Þórkell, Þórketill}}), {{lang|gd|Ìomhar}} ({{lang|non|Ívarr}}). These are conventionally rendered in English as ''Sorley'' (or, historically, ''Somerled''), ''Norman'', ''Ronald'' or ''Ranald'', ''Torquil'' and ''Iver'' (or ''Evander'').

Some Scottish names are Anglicized forms of Gaelic names: {{lang|gd|Aonghas}} → (Angus), {{lang|gd|Dòmhnall}}→ (Donald), for instance. {{lang|gd|Hamish}}, and the recently established {{lang|gd|Mhairi}} (pronounced {{IPA|[vaːri]}}) come from the Gaelic for, respectively, James, and Mary, but derive from the form of the names as they appear in the [[vocative case]]: {{lang|gd|Seumas}} (James) (nom.) → {{lang|gd|Sheumais}} (voc.) and {{lang|gd|Màiri}} (Mary) (nom.) → {{lang|gd|Mhàiri}} (voc.).