(Sigh.) It's over. (Smile.) It leaves warm memories.
And I was wondering, just before reading this last part, where the name "Coulson" comes from, so I looked it up.
This interesting and unusual surname is of Irish and early medieval English origin, and has two possible sources.
The first source is from a patronymic form of the surname Coole, which is
either the Anglicization of the Gaelic "MacCumhaill" [English "McCool"], son of Cumhall, a byname meaning champion
or the Anglicization of the Gaelic "MacDhubhghaill" [English "McDougal"], son of Dubhgall, a personal name meaning black stranger, derived from the Gaelic elements "dubh", black, and "gall", stranger.
The second source is a patronymic of Cole, which is from a Middle English (1200 - 1500) pet form of the personal name Nicholas, which is itself from the Greek "Nikolaos", composed of the elements "nikan", to conquer, and "laos", people, and means "victory of the people".
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Date: 2014-08-24 06:37 pm (UTC)And I was wondering, just before reading this last part, where the name "Coulson" comes from, so I looked it up.Ever hear of Finn McCool? (rhetorical question)