Caerlŷr
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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]| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caerlŷr | Gaerlŷr | Nghaerlŷr | Chaerlŷr |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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