Hamish

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Hamish is a Scottish given name, traditionally used as the Anglicised form of the Gaelic Seumas, equivalent to James.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Scottish given name
given name
culturalAssociation Scottish culture
derivedFrom Seamus
surface form: Seumas
equivalentTo James
etymologicalRelation Hebrew name Jacob (via James)
frequencyRegion more common in Scotland than in other English-speaking countries
gender masculine
hasAnglicisedFormOf Seamus
surface form: Seumas
hasCognate Diego
Giacomo
Gaelic Orthographic Conventions
surface form: Hamís (hypothetical Gaelic orthography)

Iago
Jaan
surface form: Jaak

Jacques
Jaime
Jakub
surface form: Jakob

Jakub
James
Seamus
Tiago
hasDiminutiveForm Ham
Hamey
Mish
hasVariantForm Seamus
surface form: Seumas
languageOfOrigin Scottish Gaelic
nameCategory Scottish masculine given name
masculine given name
nameType personal name
originNote Anglicised from Gaelic pronunciation of Seumas
relatedName Hames
Hammy
Jamie
semanticField personal names of Biblical origin
shortFormOf Seamus
surface form: Seumas
typicalUsage first name
usageRegion Scotland
usedInLanguage English
Scots
Scottish Gaelic (as an English-style form)
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Late Latin Iacomus cognate Hamish
subject surface form: Iacomus
Hamish Kirk hasGivenName Hamish
Seamus isCognateWith Hamish