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Jul. 18th, 2005 03:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethName research of the day
Wyndam looks like 'win damn', which kind of suits the trouble Wesley gets into by winning. But the surname probably comes from Wymondham, the Norfolk town. Which is just down the road from me. I've only heard the word said, so that seemed pretty obvious to me, since it is said just the same. You can see a satellite photo on Google Maps if you look at Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18.
It probably either means 'Wymund's home' (Why world, or Why man) or home on the winding path. Or alternatively the town "might take its name from its pleasant situation, for 'win' signifies a chosen or beloved place so the 'win-munde-ham' is a village 'on the pleasant mount' and the situation exactly answers." It is a Saxon name.
There's a book full of Windhams here, but they only time they spell it Wyndam is when they list all the variants. Windham is most usual in the USA, Wyndham in the UK and Australia.
Pryce looks like the modern word Price, cost, but it probably derives from Ap Rhys, son of Rhys. Rhys means "enthusiasm" in Welsh.
Wales was never conquered by the Anglo-Saxons. They built a bit of a wall instead, apparently.
But later Welsh history gets rather depressing.
And I spent far too long finding all that out instead of writing.
Wyndam looks like 'win damn', which kind of suits the trouble Wesley gets into by winning. But the surname probably comes from Wymondham, the Norfolk town. Which is just down the road from me. I've only heard the word said, so that seemed pretty obvious to me, since it is said just the same. You can see a satellite photo on Google Maps if you look at Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18.
It probably either means 'Wymund's home' (Why world, or Why man) or home on the winding path. Or alternatively the town "might take its name from its pleasant situation, for 'win' signifies a chosen or beloved place so the 'win-munde-ham' is a village 'on the pleasant mount' and the situation exactly answers." It is a Saxon name.
There's a book full of Windhams here, but they only time they spell it Wyndam is when they list all the variants. Windham is most usual in the USA, Wyndham in the UK and Australia.
Pryce looks like the modern word Price, cost, but it probably derives from Ap Rhys, son of Rhys. Rhys means "enthusiasm" in Welsh.
Wales was never conquered by the Anglo-Saxons. They built a bit of a wall instead, apparently.
But later Welsh history gets rather depressing.
And I spent far too long finding all that out instead of writing.