Welsh form or cognate of the name given Quiz

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Welsh-English Name Dictionary Quiz

by nightfloat

Created Jan 18, 2013 in Language
Featured Apr 8, 2013
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	grewupatmidnight:	Apr 8th, 2013 at 19:19 GMT		21 points
	some interesting 'english' names here

	jrfeenix:	Apr 8th, 2013 at 19:33 GMT		26 points
	Ahhh Welsh... the language of cats running across keyboards.

	Reubs_Chem_Rb:	Apr 8th, 2013 at 19:39 GMT		8 points
	One of the oldest Celtic languages in Europe, falch o fod yn Gymro ac yn falch o siarad iaith mor farddonol!

	ChileNoseJam:	Apr 8th, 2013 at 19:54 GMT		9 points
	@likk9922: a single F in Welsh is pronounced the same as V in English; a double F is pronounced the same as the English F sound.

	InsertCleverName:	Apr 8th, 2013 at 20:23 GMT		12 points
	Fascinating. Also, it's fun to play Amateur Linguist when you start to figure out some of the patterns.

	Guinevere:	Apr 8th, 2013 at 20:29 GMT		15 points
	A common complaint in these types of quizzes is that some of the English names are themselves obscure, but I'm not sure why that matters. The fun is in trying to find patterns and sound out the translations to figure out which name they could correspond with. I love these quizzes!

	coolg:	Apr 8th, 2013 at 20:39 GMT		-1 points
	Wow, I got is all right on the first go round. I really had to long and hard here, thanks so much for a wonderful challenge!!!!!!

	caramba:	Apr 8th, 2013 at 20:40 GMT		1 point
	And my dad always told me his name Allyn was the Welsh spelling of Alan.

	erak:	Apr 8th, 2013 at 20:56 GMT		11 points
	My curiosity is piqued: how is "Ffraid" derived from "Bridget"?

	kromclovinfasho:	Apr 8th, 2013 at 21:12 GMT		-1 points
	Not sure if Welsh or English spelled backwards

	Ulkomaalainen:	Apr 8th, 2013 at 21:39 GMT		10 points
	"Ffraid Jones' Diary" - memories of a coward?

	nightfloat:	Apr 8th, 2013 at 23:07 GMT		2 points
	@erak: Ffraid sounds something like "fried" and the original form of Bridget (which is an Anglicization from an original Irish Gaelic form) sounds something like "bride" - making the connection more clear.

	Inconceivable:	Apr 8th, 2013 at 23:55 GMT		2 points
	Wait, Corgi isn't a real Welsh name?

	grumpyshoegirl:	Apr 9th, 2013 at 00:25 GMT		2 points
	Bride in Irish isn't pronounced like the English "bride." It's actually pronounced "BREE-ja," with a flap on the r sound at the beginning. Not a big leap from that pronunciation to Ffraid.

	cmkeller:	Apr 9th, 2013 at 03:02 GMT		4 points
	I thought John was Ioan, like the actor Ioan Gruffudd.

	nightfloat:	Apr 9th, 2013 at 10:16 GMT		1 point
	@grumpyshoegirl: there is a form Brighid pronounced like bride or breed.

	OliHatfield:	Apr 9th, 2013 at 13:49 GMT		2 points
	@cmkeller : that also is, but there's a few different welsh forms of john... I kept on looking for Sion and it not being there! Only when I eliminated a load did I get to the right one here

	steel03:	Apr 9th, 2013 at 15:44 GMT		2 points
	Welsh is such a beautiful language! It sounds like elvish!

	Ulkomaalainen:	Apr 9th, 2013 at 20:55 GMT		6 points
	No wonder - Tolkien formed the Elvish languages from Welsh and Finnish.

	irishailish:	Apr 9th, 2013 at 22:56 GMT		3 points
	Found fluency in Irish a help in this quiz for some reason. It made it much easier to find linking sounds in the words. Love these kinds of quizzes :)

	plumsiren:	Apr 11th, 2013 at 05:11 GMT		2 points
	Just thought of the Welsh today when I saw all the lovely daffodils in bloom!

	evanakm:	Apr 11th, 2013 at 17:05 GMT		3 points
	Distinguishing between Joan and Jeanne is a little unfair, since they are both essentially the same name ("God is Gracious"; the female equivalent of John). Joan of Arc = Jeanne d'Arc. The two Welsh names are variants of the same name.