#welsh names

[gawrkin]

Fun fact: "Morgwen" or rather Morwen/Morwenna is real legit name in Welsh/Brythonic.

It means "Maiden", although it can be a portmaneau of "Mor" (meaning "sea/of the sea") and "Gwenn" (meaning "white/blessed/beautiful"). So, basically "the White Sea" or "the Beautiful Sea"

[pronoun-checks]

What are some vintage sounding english names you like? What about irish or welsh names? (If you have some of those to suggest, please include both traditional and anglicized spelling options!). Masculine or neutral, no feminine names please! Thanks for your time

No problem!

William/Will

Charles/Charlie

Oliver/Ollie/Oli

Theodore/Theo

Edward/Eddie/Ed

Jack

Arthur

August

Aodhán/Aiden

Fionn/Finn

Seán/Shawn

Ciarán/Kieran/Kieron

Caoimhín/Kevin

Niall/Neil

Aeron/Aaron

Rhys/Reece

Owain/Owen

[wylldebee]

Besides Behindthename, anybody know any good sites for welsh names? And I mean good sites, as in sites with proper welsh names and their proper meanings (or as close as they can be)?

[whitegoldtower]

Looking back through my family tree and I’ve run into some gorgeous names, mainly my great grandmother and her siblings.

Here’s some of the prettiest:

❤️Morfydd (my great granny) - means “Maiden”

❤️Idwall - “Lord of the Wall”

❤️Gwyn - “white, fair, blessed”

❤️Blodwen - “fair flower”

❤️Olwen - “white footprint” (in mythology, she was the daughter of a giant, and was so gentle that white flowers would spring from her footsteps)

❤️Gwenllian - “fair and flaxen”, I’m guessing she was a blonde…?

❤️Elwyn - “friend of elves”… me too, love

❤️Rhonwyn (gran’s sister) - “Fair Lance / Slender / White-Haired”

Also a really cool lore drop; Morfydd and Blodwen had jet black hair unlike the other siblings, and Blodwen was known to be particularly beautiful, so much so that apparently she had the nickname “the black rose” (according to my dad and grandmother). I’ve seen pictures of her, too, and honestly, she was completely stunning.

In my opinion, Blodwen looked like the absolute image of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Proserpina.

[thesequxnce]

If the American is primarily of English descent, then them making fun of Celtic/Gaelic names gives colonizer energy ☕️

Listen, for people wanting to call out colonialism, there are way too many of you mocking Irish, Welsh, and Scottish names.

No, they’re not alphabet soup, no they do not look like “you’ve thrown letters at a wall and used what stuck,” they are living, breathing languages which we did CPR on after the British Empire shot them.

Like, people DIED to keep them alive.

Every time I see some (English/American) interviewer make an entire segment forcing Saoirse Ronan to list off Irish names, I die a little inside. It’s particularly galling to see the same people ooh-ing over how “mystical” they sound, or claiming ancient heritage to us.

Realise there’s a world beyond your myopic lens and just accept sometimes you’ve got new stuff to learn. Fuck knows I do.

[serenhob]

Weird welsh names

Ive seen so many random clips of James Corden and this Irish Celebrity saying Irish names and I was thinking of the Welsh equivalent. Welsh is mostly say how it's spelt but we have extra letters so i added pronunciation.

I personally like the names and they sound less weird than they're spelled buy still strange thing to write on a birth certificate.

-Cynddylan (Cun-thu-lan) -Osian (Oshan) -Gerallt (Ger-alcht) -Rhiannon (R(roll the r) ianon) -Iwan (sounds exactly how its spelt) -Siân (Shan) -Llewellyn (lche-welch-in) -Blodeuwedd (Blod-ay-weth) -Mairwen (Said how its spelt) -Eira (said how spelt) -Creiddylad (Cray-thu-lad) -Gwenhwyfar (Gwen-who-far)

[legitbabynames]

Elliw

Photo by Alexander Grey on Pexels.com Origin: Welsh Gender: feminine Meaning: “colour” Pronunciation, sounds kind of like Eshew The name is derived from the Welsh lliw, meaning “colour.” The name has been in use since Medieval…

[emmi-kat]

Reblog with what languages.

[a-library-ghost]

whoop whoop, gansey boy!

[baldnt]

holy hell i found him y’all. he is indeed in rural Virginia.

[ashesforart]

Have a friend traveling Wales right now and she has informed me that theRE'S A WELSH TOWN NAMED MERTHYR?? Which sounds a lot like merthur??? And apparently merthyr in Welsh means martyr?? I'm gonna throw up.

[itsriotmotherfuckers]

Little Teddy doesn’t know what Daddy’s name is, but they figure it must be either “Moony,” “Love,” “ma Lune,” “Amour,” or “Chéri,” because that’s what Papa always calls him. They assume that at a few of the names must be nicknames, because, as far as they know, people only have one name. They’re pretty sure his name is Moony, though, because that’s what James and Peter call him, too.

Papa laughs for five whole minutes when they tell him their conundrum. Daddy just smiles like he does when they show him their cool jumps and tells Papa something in Welsh.

[official-wales]

i yearn for the welsh cakes

[piss-off-erik]

honestly shoutout to Moira Quirk. That woman acted the shit out of the locked tomb series and I really really hope she’s narrating Alecto too. Do I remember any character names?! NO! Would I recognise Magnus’ sweet Welsh accent from three rooms away? INSTANTLY!

[that-bitch-kat3]

you know a wolfstar fic is good when you need to pull up google translate in another tab

[koroart]

Don’t snipe me tumblr gods , i just want to share my old man yaoi 😭🫣🙏🏼