Gender Feminine
Usage Welsh, Welsh Mythology
Meaning & History
Means "token of the egg", and in effect "mundane egg", from Welsh creir "a token, jewel, sacred object" and wy "egg". In the Mabinogion, a collection of tales from Welsh myth, she was a daughter of Ceridwen and one of the three most beautiful maids of the Isle of Britain. This was also the name of a 6th-century Breton saint from Wales.