[ANSTHRLD] Gaelic names
Sara L Friedemann
liana at ellipsis.cx
Tue Sep 16 06:50:49 PDT 2003
Quoth ravenrux at cox.net:
> 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 som
> e 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
Where did you find these? None of these look Gaelic to me -
Gaelic doesn't have a letter <y>. <Gelis> also looks like an
anglicized form.
-Aryanhwy
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