Olwen

English

Etymology

From Welsh ol (“footprint”) and gwen (“white, fair”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /olwɛn/

Proper noun

Olwen

1. A female given name from Welsh from Welsh legend, specifically The Mabinogion.
   • 1994, Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man, Viking, published 1995, →ISBN:

     […] her daughter, posthumous child of Gil, to my astonishment christened in St. Aidan's with the name Marion (given by her godmother, a broadcaster friend of Esme) and Olwen (given by me as godfather, who thought Nuala's granddaughter should have a good Celtic name to sustain her through life). To my surprise and pleasure, it was Olwen that Esme chose to use when speaking of, and to, the baby - though she showed an unhappy tendency to shorten it to Ollie, in spite of my protests that this brought to mind not a stately princess, but the fat man in the Laurel and Hardy comedy series.

Anagrams

• Enlow, lowen, lowne, nowel