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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. In Wales and other areas of Brythonic Britain, the surname derives from the personal name "Hu" or "Huw", meaning "fire" or "inspiration".
The spelling Hugh in English is from the Picard variant spelling Hughes, ... Hugh Griffith (1912–1980), Welsh actor; Hugh Hefner (1926–2017), ...
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.
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 ...
Welsh (Cymraeg [kəmˈraːiɡ] ⓘ or ... and standardised spelling. ... One of the most famous Welsh-born pioneers of higher education in Wales was Sir Hugh Owen.
This list of Scottish Gaelic given names shows Scottish Gaelic given names beside their English language equivalent. In some cases, the equivalent can be a cognate, in other cases it may be an Anglicised spelling derived from the Gaelic name, or in other cases it can be an etymologically unrelated name.
A 19th-century Welsh alphabet printed in Welsh, without j or rh . The earliest samples of written Welsh date from the 6th century and are in the Latin alphabet (see Old Welsh). The orthography differs from that of modern Welsh, particularly in the use of p, t, c to represent the voiced plosives /b, d, ɡ/ non initially.
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.