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Links: Welsh translation and pronunciation
« on: Monday 19 June 06 12:36 BST (UK) »
Some website links that might help those who have little or no knowledge or Welsh - a starting point, at least!


Graveyard Welsh New Link 2013
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cwmgors/Waun.html#Contents

Pronunciation of a selection of Welsh place names
http://www.jlb2011.co.uk/wales/sounds

Welsh placename origins
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1708676

Welsh surnames and their meaning
http://surnames.behindthename.com/names/usage/welsh

Origins of apparently "foreign" Welsh names
http://www.data-wales.co.uk/namex.htm

University of Lampeter translation engine English/Welsh and Welsh/English
http://www.geiriadur.net

Welsh naming patterns: a study (including patronymics)
http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/welsh16.html

Sound files to listen to pronunciation!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/livinginwales/sites/howdoisay/names



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SOM: BIRD, BURT aka BROWN - HEF: BAUGH, LATHAM, CARTER, PRITCHARD - GLS: WEBB, WORKMAN, LATHAM, MALPUS - WIL: WEBB, SALTER - RAD: PRITCHARD, WILLIAMS - GLA: RYAN, KEARNEY, JONES, HARRY - MON: WEBB, MORGAN, WILLIAMS, JONES, BIRD - SCOTLAND: HASTINGS, CAMERON, KELSO, BUCHANAN, BETHUNE/ BEATON - IRELAND: RYAN (WATERFORD), KEARNEY (DUBLIN), BOYLE(DUNDALK)
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