[ANSTHRLD] Gaelic names
ravenrux at cox.net
ravenrux at cox.net
Wed Sep 17 08:39:35 PDT 2003
Here are the sources cited by the Gentle wishing to know.
This is where I found glendynwyne.
http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/2421.txt
This is where I found all the rest.
http://www.medievalscotland.org/scotnames/lowland16/womenalpha.shtml
Thanx,
Masamune
From: Blaise de Cormeilles <blaise at scadian.net>
Date: 2003/09/16 Tue AM 10:26:08 EDT
To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <heralds at ansteorra.org>
Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] Gaelic names
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:21:21AM -0400, ravenrux at cox.net wrote:
> Greetings the List,
>
> I've had a question posed to me which I am unable to answer. It concerns
> the pronunciation of some Gaelic (I think) given names and a surname.
> Could some Kind Soul who is In the Know please offer guidance?
>
> The names are:
> Glendynwyne (this is a surname, the rest are given names)
> Makyne
> Gelis
> Syffy
> Sywr
>
> My guesses are:
>
> /GLEN-din-wine/
> /ma-KINE/
> /GEL-is/
> /SIF-fee/
>
> I have no clue about the last and have no real wish to sprain my lips
> with an attempt. The caps represent the accents. Sorry about the
> English characters--I don't have an IPA font on this computer.
Offhand those look more likely to be anglicized Welsh; where were they
found?
Blaise
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