Caerlŷr

Welsh

Etymology

caer (“fort, castle”) + an element derived from *Ligor, a theorised former name for the local River Soar, possibly cognate with Loire.[1] Cf. Old English Leograceaster[2] and medieval Latin Cair Leirion, recorded in the Historia Brittonum and possibly referring to Leicester.[3]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Caerlŷr f

  1. Leicester (a city and unitary authority in and the county town of Leicestershire, England)

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of Caerlŷr
radical soft nasal aspirate
Caerlŷr Gaerlŷr Nghaerlŷr Chaerlŷr

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Victor Watts, John Insley, Margaret Gelling, editors (2004), “LEICESTER”, in The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
  2. ^ Thompson, James (1849) The history of Leicester, page 7f
  3. ^ Breeze, Andrew (2016) chapter 1, in Journal of Literary Onomastics‎[1], volume 5, number 1, archived from the original on 28 October 2019, page 9
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