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Aengus is a masculine given name in Irish. It is composed of the Celtic elements meaning "one", and "choice". It is the Irish form of the Scottish Gaelic ''Aonghas'', ''Aonghus''. These three Gaelic names are Anglicised as ''Angus''. The earliest form of the given name ''Angus'', and its cognates, occurs in Adomnán's ''Vita Columbae'' (English: "''Life of Columba''") as ''Oinogusius'', ''Oinogussius''. This name likely refers to a Pictish king whose name is recorded variously as ''Onnust'', ''Hungus''. According to historian Alex Woolf, the early Gaelic form of the name, ''Oengus'', was borrowed from the British Pictish ''Onuist'', which appears in British as ''Ungust''. Woolf noted that these names are all derived from the Celtic '' *Oinogustos''. Linguist John Kneen derived this name from two Celtic elements the following way: '' *Oino-gustos'', meaning "one-choice".〔 which is a transcription of 〕 Woolf also stated that between about AD 350 and AD 660, the Insular Celtic dialects underwent changes which included the loss of the final syllables and unstressed vowels, which affected '' *Oinogustos'' thus: '' *Oin ==People with the given name== *Aengus Finnan, (born 1972), a Canadian folk musician. *Aengus Finucane, (1932-2009), a Roman Catholic missionary of the Spiritan Fathers order. *Aengus Fanning, (1942-2012), an Irish journalist and former editor of farming of the ''Irish Independent''. *Aengus Ó Snodaigh, (born 1964), an Irish Sinn Féin politician. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aengus (given name)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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