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Gwen
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gwen gwên
English
Etymology
A female given name from en cy -.
en cy Gwen.
en Gwendolen. en Wendy.
en Guinevere. en Jen.
Pronunciation
en /ɡwɛn/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Gwen.wav Southern England
en ɛn 1
Proper noun
s
en female Welsh.
en Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl was a hit in 2004.
en-US Helen Rosner The Long American History of “Missing White Woman Syndrome” w:The New Yorker 2021-10-08 https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-long-american-history-of-missing-white-woman-syndrome 0028-792X 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20211030180954/https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-long-american-history-of-missing-white-woman-syndrome
en female Gwendolen,Guinevere
Anagrams
en egnw gnew
Breton
Proper noun
br proper noun
br Gwenn
Mutation
Gw en
Cebuano
Etymology
ceb :bor en:Gwen + 1
Pronunciation
ceb Gwen
Proper noun
+
ceb female English < Welsh.
Cornish
Etymology
kw
Proper noun
kw proper noun f
kw female
Mutation
Tagalog
Etymology
tl :bor en:Gwen + 1
Pronunciation
Proper noun
+
tl female English < Welsh.
Welsh
Etymology
From *windā 'white', feminine form of cy cel-pro *windos. Cf. cy gwyn.
Proper noun
f
cy female Gwyn
References