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Subject: Re: name history
Author: Nanaea   (Authenticated as Nanaea)
Date: December 23, 2001 at 6:56:29 AM
Reply to: name history by Mal Tyson
Sounds like a cross between Derry and Darryl, neither of which is feminine.

I checked my copy of *Enwau Cymraeg i Blant* and couldn't find any Welsh name like "Deryl" listed in there, either. The closest-sounding, feminine name there was "Derwena" (feminine form of "Derwen" meaning "oak"); and then there was the masculine name of "Deri" meaning "oaks".

I suspect this is an invented name -- unless somebody else here can come up with a history for it.

-- Nanaea

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