Alasdair: how to pronounce it and what it means
Boys' names
Name and meaning
Scottish Gaelic form of Alexander
Origin
Through Latin Alexander from Greek; ‘to defend’ is only one ancestral element.
How to pronounce it
AlasdairIPA: /ˈal̪ˠəs̪t̪əð/
Used as the equivalent of: Alexander
Naming equivalents do not always have the same origin.
Sources
Name definitions adapted from Wiktionary via Kaikki.org (CC BY-SA 4.0). CC BY-SA 4.0
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