Llyn

Llyn

"Llyn" is the Welsh word for pond or lake. The word and its cognates in other Celtic languages (such as the Irish "linn"), as well their derivatives—including "lyn", "lynn" and "lin"—appear in many placenames throughout the current and former Celtic world, as, for example, in Dublin and King's Lynn.

Although many of the place names containing "llyn" or one its variants indeed seem to be connected to lakes, ponds or other water features, there are "llyn" places, even in Wales, in which the derivation is otherwise (see Llŷn peninsula and Leinster in which the "llyn" sound is believed to refer to a person or tribe). In these cases the apparent similarity probably came about through the processes of associative homonymy and homography where words of different origin come to be pronounced and spelled in identical or near-identical ways.

See also

* Llŷn peninsula
* Tarn (lake)
* Lough, Loch
* Hydronym


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