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Bathafarn
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Welsh
Etymology
Back-formed from cy Fathafarn 1 (soft mutation of cy Mathafarn), mistaken as an unmutated en radical Celtic mutation root due to the fact that both b and m lenite to f in Welsh. Melville Richards 1972 Some Welsh place-names containing elements which are found in Continental Celtic Études Celtiques 13 1 390, 395 10.3406/ecelt.1972.1512
Proper noun
A country house and estate near Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd, Wales.
The magazine of the Historical Society of the Methodist Church in Wales.
Related terms
cy Mathafarn Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf
Mutation
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