Behind the Name: Message: "No connection to Seren..."

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Subject:	No connection to Seren...
Author:	Merriment ap Cassivellaunus (guest, 193.61.213.131)
Date:	August 4, 2003 at 1:55:17 AM
Reply to:	Pronunciation of the Gaulish name Sirona by Kate

Seren is the modern Welsh for a star. No Gaulish name could be 'derived' from it.
Sirona, if it existed in Modern Welsh (and it doesn't), would, due to the normal sound changes, look more like Hiron (and I think the vowels would change too).
For the pronounciation, all you really need to know is whether the vowels are long or short - it could be either sirowna or sironna...
But you'd have to find the original record for that.

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Pronunciation of the Gaulish name Sirona - Kate Aug 3 2003, 6:17:45 PM
- No connection to Seren... - Merriment ap Cassivellaunus Aug 4 2003, 1:55:17 AM

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