Re: CHAT: Brithenig-heads

Am 04/09 21:15  Padraic Brown yscrifef:

> >If, improbably, my knowledge is reliable, then _Barry_ is from an Irish
> >toponym (or toponymic formant), and _Garcia_ is a Basque name (*very*
> >unreliable recollection, that). I've no idea what either word
> >means in its original language. I imagine you'd be _Barry Garcia_. I
> >also imagine that, born in London to a Hungarian sire, I in Bethisad remain
> >_And Rosta_.
>
> In the south of Kemr, where things are still done the old fashioned
> way (i.e., the Right Way), there is the matter of the Onomasticon.
> Long ago, it was the accepted list of usable names and their
> Latinisations (for legal purposes); now it is an expanding listing of
> names both native and Foreign with Latinisations and regularisations
> designed to render them less Foreign. "Barry" will do for every day
> life, and would be rendered "Barri" most likely, but it obviously
> won't do for the legal form. Garcia is a perfectly acceptable name,
> and Kernow sports its share of Garcias (also Garjia); Nunnezes
> (Nunyes); Suarezes (Yswares); Inniguezes (Inyeges); and Caraballos
> (Caravalls). Most Spanish first names fit the language very well, as
> they either already have Kernu equivalents or are readily nativised
> (Pablo > Pavlos).
>
I was wondering how to answer this question, then I went and looked up
Saint Barry and found out that he was a Welsh saint and that Barry
Island in Glamorgan is named for him!  Well in that case it's a name
that deserves serious research.  Besides it was was my twin brother's
name also (ur per nu h-agur e-dd a'll ur di nustr morth).

Garcia wouldn't be changed except possibly in pronunciation, /gar
'tSia/.

- andrew.
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