Talk:Stewart (name)

Gaelic or Old English?
Various sources, including https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Stewart ,suggest Stewart derives from Old English. Ses102 (talk) 00:29, 20 July 2023 (UTC)


 * The “Gaelic word” itself is a loan from Old English, so it’s fairly moot. Seeing as both English and Gaelic were spoken in Scotland at the time the title became common, and the elite were French-speaking, it seems highly unlikely it was a loan from Gaelic via English, as opposed to just a direct use of an English title, especially given the intensely negative view the Norman elites of Scotland had of the Gaels at that time. 2A00:23EE:1378:1DD5:4173:EF05:245C:190B (talk) 16:55, 11 August 2023 (UTC)