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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.
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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 .
The Old High German name Hugo was adopted as third declension nominative into Middle Latin (Hugo, Hugonis); in English, however, historical figures of the continental Middle Ages are conventionally given the name in its modern English spelling, as in Hugh Capet (941–996), Hugh Magnus of France (1007–1025), Hugh of Cluny (1024–1109), Hugh ...
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 ...
Legends of Welsh Sport: Mark Hughes is available to watch on BBC iPlayer and BBC One Wales from Tuesday, 7 January at 20:00 GMT and later on demand. Show comments Advertisement
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 ...
Back home in North Wales, Griffith, like his father before him, worked in the Penrhyn Slate Quarry. In Welsh, the word penrhyn translates to headland or promontory, which aptly described the seaport from which the Penrhyn Quarry took its name. When it came to naming his new enterprise, the choice was obvious, but not the spelling.