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Do you want pronounciations or translations?

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Have you been looking at lists of bardic names (names of poets)?

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GIRLS
Ceinlys (kane-leess)
Gwenfyl (gwenvil)
Gwylan - seagull
Gwyneirys - white snow
Ellylw
Enfys - rainbow - is used
Esyllt

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Llawela
Lleucu
Mairwen
Myfanwy
Isolde - Izolda - is a germanic name.

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BOYS
Cymry - means the Welsh people. Never used as a baby name.
Cynyr
Eilir
Hywyn
Iau - younger (a nickname)
Ianto - yan-to - diminutive form of Ieuan (John)
Ioseff
Islwyn
Glwys
Llyfni
Myfyr (muveer)
Selyf - (sel-iv) - Solomon
Sial
Sieffre - Geoffrey - but noone would ever call their child this
Siencyn - John
Sion - John
Sionyn - john
Sior - George - but noone would ever call their child this
Rhun (hreen)
Wmffre - Humphrey - but noone would ever call their child this
Ynyr (ineer)
Ysfael (uss-vile)
Siarl - Charles - but noone would ever call their child this
Taredd (tar-eth)
Twm - Tom

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Sulwyn (seelwyn) - must be a boys name with this ending. (g)wyn is the masculine form, (g)wen the feminine. So female form would be SulWEN.

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If you really want to know about Welsh names, why don't you buy a Welsh name book?

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Lolfa will sell (online) 'Welsh names for children' by Heini Gruffudd. This would be a good place for you to start.

(some welsh pronounce things slightly differently though, and i've haven't heard of a good few of these names before, but still ...)

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*double L = loosely said 'cl' sound

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GIRLS:

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Ceinlys - cainlis
Gwenfyl - gwenvil
Gwylan - gwillan
Gwyneirys - gwin-ay-riss
Ellylw - (?) e*i-lew
Enfys - enviss
Esyllt - ess-i*t
Sulwyn - sull-win
Llawela - *awella
Lleucu - *ay-key/kew
Mairwen - myre-wen
Myfanwy - mi-van-wee
Isolde - (?) Probably like it looks

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BOYS:

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Cymry - kum-ree (but that means Wales ... Doubt if anyone would use that as a first name)
Cynyr - kun-ir
Eilir - ay-leer
Hywyn - hiw-in
Iau - like 'eye' with a Y infront > Means Thursday when used with 'dydd'
Ianto (and meaning if known) - yan-to
Ioseff - yo-seff
Islwyn - (?) is-ill-win
Glwys - gliw-iss
Llyfni - *iv-nee
Myfyr - miv-ir
Selyf - sell-iv
Sial - see-al (?)
Sieffre - see-eff-r (?)
Siencyn - see-en-kin (possibly pronounced with a 'sh')
Sion - shon (with a long 'o'> actually spelt siôn)
Sionyn - ^ same with 'in' at end (never heard of it though)
Sior - shore
Rhun - (h)run
Wmffre - (?)
Ynyr - un-ir
Ysfael - is-vile/vale
Siarl - (?) shee-arl
Taredd - ea-reth (with a 'th' like in 'breathe'
Twm - toom (?)

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And just to add again, I've never come across quite a lot of these (but I've put pronunciations in anyway). And I'm from N.Wales, and we have some things spelt and pronounced slightly differently.

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Why the long list, anyway?

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- Eleri

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