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FFION f Welsh form of FIONA
Incorrect: Ffion means Foxglove (plant), therfore Fiona is the English form of Ffion.
Remember: Brythoneg(old Welsh) existed before the Romans landed on Ynys Brydain (Britain).
The indiginous people of Ynys Brydain experienced a form of ethnic cleansing by Anglo-Saxons invaders following the Roman withdrawal in the fifth century.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2076470.stm
It was then the Brythoneg was split into Cymraeg (modern Welsh), Kernywek (Cornish) and Brezhoneg (Breton). There were others (in southern Scotland, Cumbria and Yorkshire), but they soon died and unfortunately no written recods exist.
Another interesting link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1256894.stm
FFION f Welsh form of FIONA
Incorrect: Ffion means Foxglove (plant), therfore Fiona is the English form of Ffion.
Remember: Brythoneg(old Welsh) existed before the Romans landed on Ynys Brydain (Britain).
The indiginous people of Ynys Brydain experienced a form of ethnic cleansing by Anglo-Saxons invaders following the Roman withdrawal in the fifth century.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2076470.stm
It was then the Brythoneg was split into Cymraeg (modern Welsh), Kernywek (Cornish) and Brezhoneg (Breton). There were others (in southern Scotland, Cumbria and Yorkshire), but they soon died and unfortunately no written recods exist.
Another interesting link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1256894.stm
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Actually, Ffion is the name for foxglove but it's based on the Gaelic element fionn meaning 'teg, gwyn' or for those who don't speak Welsh as well as you inevitably do, 'fair, white'. Fiona is actually a Latinised version of that same element, not Irish but Scottish, first used by Macpherson in his Ossianic poems. So the base roots of both Fiona and Ffion are the same Gaelic ffion for 'fair, white'.
There is an Irish name, Fíona which means 'vine' and is unconnected to the Scottish Fiona but that's a story for another day...
Devon
There is an Irish name, Fíona which means 'vine' and is unconnected to the Scottish Fiona but that's a story for another day...
Devon
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