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Let's get some money from the English. [[User:LateralQuercus|LateralQuercus]]
Let's get some money from the English. [[User:LateralQuercus|LateralQuercus]]
Arf!
Llan: church, or religious enclosure (a church building itself is ''eglwys'', from the latin ''ecclesia''.
Fair: modified form of ''Mair'', (Saint) Mary.
Pwll: pool
Gwyn: white
Gyll: modified form of ''cyll'': plural form of ''collen'', hazel
Go-ger: close to
Y: the
Chwyrn: wild
Drobwll: modified form of ''trobwll'', whirlpool
Llantysillio: church of St. Tysilio
Gogo: (meaning obscure)
Goch: modified form of ''coch'', red.
Thus, the church of St Mary by the poool of the white hazels, close to the wild whirlpool of the red church of St Tysilio.