{"id":532,"date":"2007-11-05T17:59:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T16:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/05\/lloegr\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T21:30:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T21:30:48","slug":"lloegr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; Lloegr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Welsh name for England is <em>Lloegr<\/em> (\/\u026c\u0254igr\/). The etymology of this name is a mystery. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-dispatch.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/section?category=NEWS&amp;template=wiki&amp;text=Wales\">this site<\/a>, it first appeared as <em>Lloegyr<\/em> in an early 10th century prophetic poem called <em>Armes Prydain<\/em>. A variant of the name, <em>Lloegrwys<\/em>, or &#8220;men of Lloegr&#8221;, was in use before then and more common. In early poetry, the names used for the English included <em>Eingl<\/em> (Angles) and <em>Iwys<\/em> (Wessex-men) &#8211; they are called <em>Saeson<\/em> (Saxons) in modern Welsh. Some scholars believe that <em>Lloegr<\/em> originally referred to the kingdom of Mercia, and eventually came to mean the whole of England.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a thread on <a href=\"http:\/\/britannia.com\/celtic\/wales\/forum\/messages\/1829.html\">this forum<\/a> in which a number of possible etymologies of <em>Lloegr<\/em> are discussed. Here are some of them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it comes from the Middle English name for England, <em>Loegres<\/em><\/li>\n<li>it comes from <em>Legorencis Civitas<\/em>, the Roman name for Leicester, which was probably derived from a local Celtic name<\/li>\n<li>it means the &#8220;lost land(s)&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>it&#8217;s named after Locrinus, the son of Brutus (from Geoffrey of Monmouth)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More details: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.old-north.co.uk\/Holding\/celt_lloegr.html\">http:\/\/www.old-north.co.uk\/Holding\/celt_lloegr.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Welsh name for England is Lloegr (\/\u026c\u0254igr\/). The etymology of this name is a mystery. According to this site, it first appeared as Lloegyr in an early 10th century prophetic poem called Armes Prydain. A variant of the name, Lloegrwys, or &#8220;men of Lloegr&#8221;, was in use before then and more common. In early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21858,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/21858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}