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Fiona, Jennifer, Guinevere, penguin, Vienna, wiener
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Celtic *windos white
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Brythonic *gwɨnn white
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Welsh gwyn white, fair, shining, blessed
- Welsh Gwendolen White-Ring personal name
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Welsh -wen
- Welsh Anwen Very-Fair personal name
- Welsh Blodwen Flower-Fair personal name
- Welsh Branwen Raven-Fair personal name
- Welsh
- Cornish gwen white
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Breton gwenn white
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French Le Guen The White Breton surname
- English Le Guin
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Gaulish
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Old French
- French vandoise dace, chub a small, white fish
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Old Irish finn white, bright
- Irish fionn fair, blond, cataract
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Old Irish Finn
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Old Irish Finn mac Cumhail [1]
- English Finn MacCool
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Irish Fionn
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Irish Finnagán
- English Finnegan
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Irish Fiona
- English Fiona
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Irish Fionnbhara White-Head
- English Finbar
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Irish Fionnuala White-Shoulder
- English Finnula
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Irish Fionntan
- English Fintan
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Celtic *Windosēbaris white-spirit
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Brythonic *Gwɨnnhuɨβar
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Cornish Gwynnever
- English Jennifer
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Welsh Gwenhwyfar
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French Guenièvre
- English Guinevere
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- Old Irish Finnabair
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Celtic Windobona [4]
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Latin Vindobona [4]
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Western Romance
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Old French
- French Vienne
- English Vienna
- Italian Vienna
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German Wien Vienna
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German Wiener Person or thing from Vienna
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German Wiener Schnitzel wienerschnitzel lit. "Viennese Cut"
- English wienerschnitzel
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German Wienerwurst Viennese sausage
- English wiener
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West Slavic
- Czech Vídeň Vienna
- Polish Wiedeń Vienna
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Germanic *winidaz Slav, Wend
- Old English Winedas Slav, Wend
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German Wende Wend West Slavic ethnic group on the border of Germany and Poland
- English Wend
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Old Norse Vindr Slav
- Finnish Venäjä Russia
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Estonian vene Russian
- Estonian Venemaa Russia
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Collected English words
Le Guin, Finn MacCool, Finnegan, Fiona, Finbar, Finnula, Fintan, Jennifer, Guinevere, penguin, Vienna, wienerschnitzel, wiener, Wend
Footnotes
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Finn MacCool, a legendary Irish hero, sometimes described as having prematurely white hair.
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Welsh pengwyn is probably actually rederived transparently in Welsh, rather than descended directy, but it seemed more organized to attach it here.
Likewise, : Galician Pena Oubiña (name of a mountain in Galicia in Northwest Spain) is likewise probably derived from a transparent phrase in Late Gaulish, and not from the Proto-Celtic personal name.
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"Penguin" originally meant the great auk, later extended to penguins.
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Celtic *Windobona, tentatively derived as "white-base (of a hill)" or "white-village", was a settlement where Vienna would be. When the Romans built a fort there, they kept the name as Vindobona. The later Western Romance name may have been conflated with *Vedunia: "forest stream", before giving Italian Vienna and French Vienne.