OIGHRIG

Scottish Gaelic: name of uncertain derivation, apparently from an earlier formAithbhreacmeaning ‘new speckled one’. It has commonly beenAnglicizedasERICA(SEE Erica),EFRIC(SEE Efric),EFFIE(SEE Effie) andEUPHEMIA(SEE Euphemia), formerly also asAFRICA(SEE Africa). See alsoEITHRIG(SEE Eithrig) andEIRIC(SEE Eiric).