Cinnéididh

The phlebby-tech who extracted my blood yesterday was raised in a family with 15 kids.

Her mother was the oldest child and the tech's maternal grandmother died very shortly after her mother married. So, her mother raised her seven sibling. Meanwhile, her mother had eight kids of her own. My tech was the youngest of the 15.

My tech was raised on a hog farm near Decatur, Michigan.

After growing up, she studied her family history and learned that her last name, in Gallic, was "Cinnéididh" which literally translates as "lumpy head".

The tech was a fine-looking lass and I assured her that her head was not the least bit lumpy.

I looked up her last name on the internet after I got home and it claims that the name refers to "A helmeted war-chief".

I guess if you had never seen a warrior wearing a helmet then you might describe him as a man with a lumpy head.

In my family's mother-tongue, my last name translates as "the peasant who chops the horse and cattle food". I guess you could say that my family has been in the transportation industry for a VERY long time.