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    "Righteous" as a surname

    My last name is Frommer...which is German and means roughly "righteous" or "true", "steadfast", "devout", "abiding", "dependable" and / or "faithful". Or some combination of all of those...there may not be any one-to-one translation. The best example is the title of an old German hymm--"Oh Gott du frommer Gott" (oh God thou righteous God).

    The Gaelic equivalent of "righteous", as best I can determine, is "fireanta".

    So, my question is: Is there an ending or variation of fireanta that would make it more appropriate as a surname?
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    "firean?" MacFirean?
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    From Norman Mcleod's Dictionary of the Gaelic Language:

    FIREANACH: a righteous man.

    https://books.google.com.au/books?id...hteous&f=false

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    I'm thinking "a seasmhach" or "an seasmhach" to mean "the steadfast".

    I know some here are gaelic speakers or study gaelic...hoping for some help--I'm not and I'm floundering a bit.
    DWFII--Traditionalist and Auld Crabbit
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