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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 ...
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.
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 list of standardised Welsh place-names is a list compiled by the Welsh Language Commissioner to recommend the standardisation of the spelling of Welsh place-names, particularly in the Welsh language and when multiple forms are used, although some place-names in English were also recommended to be matched with the Welsh.
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 ...
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 ...
From Welsh Rhiannon. Rós Róis(e) Rose (English equivalent) Derived from Rose. [257] Róisín: Rosheen (anglicisation) Rosaleen (English equivalent) A pet form of Rós. [258] Seosaimhín Josephine (English equivalent) Derived from Josephine. [259] Síle: Sheila, She(e)lagh (anglicisations) Cecilia (English equivalent) From Latin Cecilia. [260 ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Welsh on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Welsh in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.