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As yet, no pre-1600 Scottish Gaelic examples of the name have been found.
Entries in the late 16th century Burgh Court Books for Inverness record the names of a number of women who, based on their full names, were apparently Gaels (although, since they appear in a burgh/town, at least some of them may have been bi-cultural). Examples include:
But these names are being recorded in Scots, not Gaelic. (<Sch> is normally pronounced \sh\ in Scots.)
So while this shows that late 16th century Scottish Gaels were using a name that was recorded in Scots language documents as <Scheak>, it does not tell us what the medieval Gaelic form of that name was.
"Sitheag ... Historical. Common in the 17th century. Derived from Middle Gaelic sidhach, meaning wolf."[Morgan, s.n. Sitheag]
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