Origin: Hamish is an anglicised form of Seumas – the Scots Gaelic form of James – which is, itself, the anglicised form of Jacob (Latin Jacobus / Hebrew Ya'aqov). Seumas is pronounced SHAY-məs. Given that James was pronounced with two syllables during the Middle Ages, and Gaelic does not have... More @Wikipedia
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