The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #67769   Message #1227471
Posted By: GUEST,Guealeg
17-Jul-04 - 12:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: What's in your name?
Subject: RE: BS: What's in your name?
Campbell - Cambell etc

The old Gaelic is; 'caombh', 'beal' or '
beul' etc. It meANT Orator or Clever or Schooled - person with the implication that the skill is oral, since the word 'beal' etc., means mouth as opposed to 'lambh'-for example- which would have indicated an arisan or laborer etc.