Gilleasbaig


Gilleasbaig is a masculine given name in the Scottish Gaelic language. The traditional form of the name is Gilleasbuig. Another form of the name is Gille Easbaig. The names mean "servant of the bishop", with the second word deriving from the Latin episcopus, which also gave rise to English bishop.
An early bearer of the name was the founder of Clan Campbell. An Anglicised form of the name is Gillespie; the name is also Anglicised as Archibald, which is etymologically unrelated, but was carried by the early Campbell Earls of Argyll, often in the form Archibald Gillespie Campbell.

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