Active discussions

Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Multicultural families

Here's where to share your experience of raising a child or growing up in a multicultural family.

Original poster

Calling all Welshies- name help please

71 replies

Pixiefish · 18/06/2007 22:48

I'm due #2 in November. Have got a boys name sorted- Iddon Meilir. Need to sort a girls name out now. I have a very English surname beginning with M. I am Welsh and really fancy a Welsh name for #2. Dd has a Welsh name. i fancied mabli but a friend has just beaten me to it
I wouldn't mind resurrecting an olde Welsh name but dh doesn't say the Ll very well- i had fancied Llenwedd but the Ll makes it impossible for dh.

Help me please

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
moondog · 18/06/2007 23:10

I grew up with loads of Aussies and Kiwis (PNG) and yes,plethora of 'Meeeeegans'.

emsiewill · 18/06/2007 23:11

Dds were just commenting today that there is at least one Bethan in every year but one at their (Welsh medium) school...

Only 1 other Catrin though.

norkmaiden · 18/06/2007 23:11

Elin?

moondog · 18/06/2007 23:11

Whereabouta are you Emsie? (don't say if you don't want to of course..)

Califrau · 18/06/2007 23:14

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

mambach · 18/06/2007 23:14

Mari
Haf
Lili
Sioned
Mared
Ela
Sara
Eluned
Gweno

emsiewill · 18/06/2007 23:15

I'm in that most Welshy part of Wales...

...Newport!

moondog · 18/06/2007 23:15

lol at Mambach.

I love that expression!!!

moondog · 18/06/2007 23:16

Oooh Emsie,that's like a foreign country to us Caernarfon lot.

Califrau · 18/06/2007 23:16

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

norkmaiden · 18/06/2007 23:16

Inira?

My fave on this page is probably Llio, esp after Llio Rhydderch...

mambach · 18/06/2007 23:17

I'm almost in the middle, near Dolgellau, Gwynedd

emsiewill · 18/06/2007 23:17

Dh is from Llanfairpwll - hence the Welsh Medium school for the dds.

Have spent many a happy () hour in that soft play in an ex-church in Caernarfon (can't remember what it's called).

moondog · 18/06/2007 23:18

Ah Mam,I work down there now and then...

mambach · 18/06/2007 23:18

Oo also
Llia
Alaw
Awel
....come on brain work!!!

moondog · 18/06/2007 23:18

Hwylfan Emsie.
My idea of hell.I never take my kids there.

Was in Llanfairfechan today thoguh.

mambach · 18/06/2007 23:19

Whereabouts moondog?

emsiewill · 18/06/2007 23:20

Luckily the dd's are getting too old to want to go there, and also old enough to be sent to Llanfairpwll for their hols without us!

Never been to Llanfairfechan, but always loved the name!

Califrau · 18/06/2007 23:20

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

moondog · 18/06/2007 23:20

Oh,perhaps I shouldn't say,it's a small world.

Education will cover it.

And you?? Roughly??

(Wyt ti'n siarad Cymraeg?)

Califrau · 18/06/2007 23:20

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

emsiewill · 18/06/2007 23:21

All those scousers living in "Clandidno" have problems with the "ll" too...

moondog · 18/06/2007 23:22

The closest an English speaker will get to a 'll' is to say 'clitoris' (or 'cling' for the faint hearted) and its nestled in there.

(Tip passed on by Phonetics tutor.)

mambach · 18/06/2007 23:22

Wel, dwi'n trio, dwi yn Saes, ond dwi bod yn byw yma am dipyn....if that make any sense to you!!

emsiewill · 18/06/2007 23:24

Well I'm not a (proper) Welsh speaker, and I've learnt how to do it.

I can even say "urdd" (well, nearly)