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Help[Opinions] Re: Welsh BAs
in reply to a message by Llewella
Iola is more like yolla - short o sound. It's a sort of anglo-feminisation of Iolo. I like it too.
Not sure on Lliwen, but lliw is 'colour', so maybe light-coloured, fair? Practically every other Welsh name seems to mean fair. :)
Not sure on Lliwen, but lliw is 'colour', so maybe light-coloured, fair? Practically every other Welsh name seems to mean fair. :)
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Iola "yolla" is superfun. It's like the words jolly and yellow in name form.
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Hmm, not sure I like yolla, maybe I'll just pronounce it wrong for myself. :P Although maybe it could be either because if it's a variant of Iole, then I think YO-la would be correct. But if you think of it as a feminization of Iolo, then it would be the other one.
True, darn that gwen. Color is a neat meaning to have in a name. I mostly like the sound of Lliwen.
ETA: Perhaps you could help me with this. I thought of this after clicking on Gwynfor (which I can't decide if I like or not). What's up with mawr vs. fawr? Is fawr like the old version of mawr or something? Because it's not even in the dictionary I'm looking at, but I know it's a word. And I'm also assuming that's why the -for part is mawr... because it's actually fawr?
True, darn that gwen. Color is a neat meaning to have in a name. I mostly like the sound of Lliwen.
ETA: Perhaps you could help me with this. I thought of this after clicking on Gwynfor (which I can't decide if I like or not). What's up with mawr vs. fawr? Is fawr like the old version of mawr or something? Because it's not even in the dictionary I'm looking at, but I know it's a word. And I'm also assuming that's why the -for part is mawr... because it's actually fawr?
This message was edited 1/19/2012, 9:05 AM
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fawr is mawr... mutated.
http://www.linguata.com/welsh/welsh-language-mutation.html
Mutations are a huge pain.:)
http://www.linguata.com/welsh/welsh-language-mutation.html
Mutations are a huge pain.:)
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Oh, fun. Thanks! :)
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