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Cormac
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English
Etymology
en ga -, from en sga Cormac.
Proper noun
en male Irish.
en Keza MacDonald Red Dead Redemption 2: three hours with the most anticipated game of the year w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/oct/10/red-dead-redemption-2-wild-west-adventure-realism-preview 2018-10-10 It gave me more of a Cormac McCarthy vibe than a Westworld one, hinting at the death of the old west, the consequences of America’s rapid industrialisation and the death of a way of life, rather than a straightforward romanticisation of the frontier and its outlaw heroes. https://web.archive.org/web/20261018131719/https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/oct/10/red-dead-redemption-2-wild-west-adventure-realism-preview 18 October 2026
Related terms
en Cormack
en Cormick
Translations
male given name
Icelandic: is Kormákur
Irish: ga Cormac
Anagrams
en accmor comcar
Irish
Etymology
From ga sga Cormac, older sga Corbmac (see the Old Irish entry).
Proper noun
m Chormaic
ga male Old Irish
Declension
C ormac ormaic
Mutation
Old Irish
Alternative forms
sga Corbmac
Etymology
From older sga Corbmac, from sga corb (apparently meaning chariot, but found only in glossaries) + sga macc son. For the first element see ga carbad.
Pronunciation
Cormacc
Proper noun
sga proper noun m
sga male
Inflection
s Cormaic
Descendants
non Kormákr 1
Mutation