Gwen

See also: gwen and gwên

English

Etymology

A female given name from Welsh.

• Borrowed from Welsh Gwen.
• Clipping of Gwendolen. Doublet of Wendy.
• Clipping of Guinevere. Doublet of Jen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwɛn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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  Rhymes: -ɛn

Proper noun

Gwen (plural Gwens)

1. A female given name from Welsh.

   Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl was a hit in 2004.

   • 2021 October 8, Helen Rosner, “The Long American History of “Missing White Woman Syndrome””, in The New Yorker‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The Petito case, which is still unfolding (her fiancé, with whom she’d been travelling, is believed to be in hiding) seemed like another instance of what the late journalist Gwen Ifill famously described as “missing white woman syndrome”: a hunger for stories about victims who look like Petito, to the exclusion of all others.

   1. A diminutive of the female given names Gwendolen and Guinevere

Anagrams

• gnew

Breton

Proper noun

Gwen

1. alternative form of Gwenn

Mutation

Mutation of Gwen

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
Gwen	Wen	unchanged	Kwen

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

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English Gwen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwen/ [ˈɡwen̪]
• Hyphenation: Gwen

Proper noun

Gwen (Badlit spelling ᜄ᜔ᜏᜒᜈ᜔)

1. a female given name from English [in turn from Welsh].

Cornish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Gwen f

1. a female given name

Mutation

Mutation of Gwen

radical	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
Gwen	Wen	unchanged	Kwen	Hwen, Wen*

* after 'th
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Gwen.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwen/ [ˈɡ̠wɛn̪]
• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: Gwen

Proper noun

Gwen (Baybayin spelling ᜄ᜔ᜏᜒᜈ᜔)

1. a female given name from English [in turn from Welsh].

Welsh

Etymology

From *windā 'white', feminine form of Proto-Celtic *windos. Cf. Welsh gwyn.

Proper noun

Gwen f

1. a female given name, masculine equivalent Gwyn

References

• Matasović, Ranko (2009), Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN