Rhys

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Welsh Rhys; related to Price, Reece, Rees, Reese, and Rice.

Proper noun

Rhys (plural Rhyses)

  1. A male given name.
    • 2014 November 22, Miles Brignall, “Victory against Vodafone for schoolteacher billed £15,000”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      Vodafone has also dropped its claim against one of Rhys Edwards’s travelling companions – who had been at the same reunion and had his phone pickpocketed two hours later in almost identical circumstances to Rhys Edwards.
  2. A surname.

Anagrams

Welsh

Etymology

From Old Welsh Ris (“ardor, fiery warrior”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run”).[1] Related to modern rhysfa (“attack”), rhys (“war hammer”),[2] though these could have originated from the name.[3]

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈr̥ɨːs/
  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈr̥iːs/
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Proper noun

Rhys m

  1. a male given name from Old Welsh used in Wales since the Middle Ages
  2. a surname originating as a patronymic

Descendants

Mutation

Mutated forms of Rhys
radical soft nasal aspirate
Rhys Rys unchanged unchanged

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

References

  1. ^ Forsyth, Katherine (2020). "Protecting a Pict?: Further thoughts on the inscribed silver chape from St Ninian's Isle, Shetland". Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. p. 11.
  2. ^ Legendary Poems from the Book of Taliesin (2007). United Kingdom: CMCS, p. 207.
  3. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “rhys”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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