{"id":8496,"date":"2013-04-18T17:12:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T17:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8496"},"modified":"2013-04-18T17:12:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T17:12:22","slug":"llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8496","title":{"rendered":"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch\"<\/p>\n

On Anglesey not far from where I live, there’s a place with quite a long name: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch<\/a>, or Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Llanfairpwll or Llanfair PG for short. It has the longest officially recognised place name in Europe which was contrived during the 1860s by a local man who wanted to attract visitors to the town – with great success. It was originally called Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll.<\/p>\n

The name breaks down into the following parts:<\/p>\n

Llanfair [[\u026canvair] = St Mary’s church
\n– llan = church, parish, village
\n– fair = mair = Mary – the m of a feminine word mutates to f in a compound like this<\/p>\n

Pwllgwyngyll [pu\u026c\u0261w\u0268\u031e\u014b\u0261\u0268\u031e\u026c] = hollow of white hazel trees
\n– pwll = pool, pit, hollow
\n– gwyn = white
\n– gyll = cyll = hazel trees<\/p>\n

gogery = near the (not entirely sure about this part)
\ngo [\u0261o] = under (?)
\nger [\u0261\u025br] = near
\ny [\u0259] = the<\/p>\n

chwyrndrobwll = rapid whirpool
\n– chwyrn [\u03c7w\u0259r\u0259n] = rapid
\n– drobwll [drobu\u026c] = trobwll = whirpool (tro = to turn, pwll = pool)<\/p>\n

Llantysilio [\u026cant\u0268\u031esiljo] = St Tysilio’s church<\/p>\n

gogogoch = (of the) red cave
\ngogo [\u0261o\u0261o] = ogof = cave
\ngoch [\u0261o\u02d0\u03c7] = coch = red<\/p>\n

This post was requested by Andr\u00e9 Bosch.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Anglesey not far from where I live, there’s a place with quite a long name: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, or Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Llanfairpwll or Llanfair PG for short. It has the longest officially recognised place name in Europe which was contrived during the 1860s by a local man who wanted to attract visitors to the town – with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496","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=8496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}