The feminine form of Earnán, and one of a whole family of Irish women's names ending in -nait: Gobnait, Muadhnait, Odharnait, Rathnait. Almost all of them belonged to saints.
Meanings follow Ó Corráin & Maguire's Irish Names and Woulfe;
pronunciations give the commonest Irish-English form.
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