Gwen

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See also: gwen and gwên

English

Etymology

A female given name from Welsh, shortened from Gwendolen or Guinevere.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Gwen

  1. A female given name
    Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl was a hit in 2004.
    • 2021 October 8, Helen Rosner, “The Long American History of “Missing White Woman Syndrome””, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
      The Petito case, which is still unfolding (her fiancé, with whom she’d been travelling, is believed to be in hiding) seemed like another instance of what the late journalist Gwen Ifill famously described as “missing white woman syndrome”: a hunger for stories about victims who look like Petito, to the exclusion of all others.

Anagrams

Breton

Proper noun

Gwen

  1. Alternative form of Gwenn

Inflection

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Mutation of Gwen
unmutated soft aspirate hard
Gwen Wen unchanged Kwen

Cornish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Gwen f

  1. a female given name

Mutation

Welsh

Etymology

From *windā 'white', feminine form of Proto-Celtic *windos. Cf. Welsh gwyn.

Proper noun

Gwen f

  1. a female given name, the feminine form of Gwyn

Mutation

Mutated forms of Gwen
radical soft nasal aspirate
Gwen Wen Ngwen unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN