Gwen

See also: gwen and gwên

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwɛn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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  Rhymes: -ɛn

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^[1], →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

• gnew

Breton

Proper noun

Gwen

1. Alternative form of Gwenn

Inflection

Mutation of Gwen

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
Gwen	Wen	unchanged	Kwen

Cornish

Etymology

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Proper noun

Gwen f

1. a female given name

Mutation

Mutation of Gwen

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
Gwen	Wen	unchanged	Kwen	Hwen	Wen

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