O'Nile

Yola

Etymology

Anglicisation of an Irish Ó Niall, surname meaning "descendant of Niall".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːˈniːɫ/

Proper noun

O'Nile

1. a surname, equivalent to English O'Neill
   • 1987, The Manuscript of Jacob Poole's Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy:

     O'Nile

     O'Neill

References

• T. P. Dolan (1987) Eighteenth-Century lreland / lris an dá chultúr Vol. 2, Eighteenth-Century lreland Society, page 205