 The standard Irish Gaelic form of these names is Amhlaoibh (pronounced "ow-liv", and "owl-lee"); which can be Anglicised as Auliffe and "Humphrey".The Old Irish personal name Amlaíb is a Gaelicised form of the Old Norse "Óláfr", and is recorded in the Annals of Ulster as being introduced into Ulster by "Amlaíb, son of the king of Lochlann" In the 9th century, "Óláfr" may have been pronounced more like the Old Norse "Áleifr".A Classical Gaelic form of this Old Irish name is Amhlaíbh.