Caerlŷr
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
caer (“fort, castle”) + an element derived from *Ligor, a theorised former name for the local River Soar, possibly cognate with Loire.[1] Cf. Old English Leograceaster[2] and medieval Latin Cair Leirion, recorded in the Historia Brittonum and possibly referring to Leicester.[3]
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /kaɨ̯rˈlɨːr/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /kai̯rˈliːr/
Proper noun edit
Caerlŷr f
- Leicester (a city and unitary authority in and the county town of Leicestershire, England).
Derived terms edit
Mutation edit
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| Caerlŷr | Gaerlŷr | Nghaerlŷr | Chaerlŷr |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References edit
- ^ Victor Watts, John Insley, Margaret Gelling, editors (2004), “LEICESTER”, in The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
- ^ Thompson, James (1849) The history of Leicester, page 7f
- ^ Breeze, Andrew (2016) chapter 1, in Journal of Literary Onomastics[1], volume 5, number 1, archived from the original on 28 October 2019, page 9