[ANSTHRLD] Gaelic names

[Blaise de Cormeilles]

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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