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The spelling Hugh in English is from the Picard variant spelling Hughes, ... Hugh Griffith (1912–1980), Welsh actor; Hugh Hefner (1926–2017), ...
Hughes is an Anglicized spelling of the Welsh and Irish patronymic surname. The surname may also derive from the etymologically unrelated Picard variant Hugh (Old French Hue ) of the Germanic name Hugo .
Huw is a Welsh given name, a variant of Hugo or Hugh. Notable people with the name include: Huw Bennett (born 1983), Welsh rugby player; Huw Bunford (born 1967), guitarist in the Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals; Huw Cadwaladr, Welsh poet; Huw Cae Llwyd (c.1431–c.1504), Welsh poet; Huw Ceredig (1942–2011), Welsh actor; Huw Davies ...
As in the Gaelic-speaking areas, many Welsh (Cymric) patronyms were anglicised by omitting the prefix indicating son of and either exchanging the father's Welsh forename for its English equivalent, or re-spelling it according to English spelling rules, and, either way, most commonly adding -s to the end, so that the such as 'ap Hywell' became ...
The printer and publisher Lewis Jones, one of the co-founders of Y Wladfa, the Welsh-speaking settlement in Patagonia, favoured a limited spelling reform which replaced Welsh f /v/ and ff /f/ with v and f , and from circa 1866 to 1886 Jones employed this innovation in a number of newspapers and periodicals he published and/or edited in the ...
from Old Celtic bardos, either through Welsh bardd (where the bard was highly respected) or Scottish bardis (where it was a term of contempt); Cornish bardh cawl a traditional Welsh soup/stew; Cornish kowl coracle from corwgl. This Welsh term was derived from the Latin corium meaning "leather or hide", the material from which coracles are made ...
Sign spelling gaffes from across Wales "One of us needed a toilet and the nearest was the McDonald's. We walked down the stairs and I just saw glanhau in the corner of my eye - I had to do a ...
Sir Hugh Myddelton (or Middleton), 1st Baronet (1560 – 10 December 1631) [a] was a Welsh clothmaker, entrepreneur, mine-owner, goldsmith, banker and self-taught engineer. The spelling of his name is inconsistently reproduced, but Myddelton appears to be the earliest, and most consistently used in place names associated with him.