Editing Snowdonia (section)

== Toponymy ==
The name "Snowdon" means "snow hill" and is derived from the [[Old English]] elements ''"snāw''" and ''"dūn''", the latter meaning 'hill'.<ref>{{Citation |last=Mills |first=A. D. |title=Snowdon |date=2011-01-01 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199609086.001.0001/acref-9780199609086-e-12092 |work=A Dictionary of British Place Names |access-date=2023-06-09 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/acref/9780199609086.001.0001 |isbn=978-0-19-960908-6}}</ref> "Snowdonia" is simply taken from the name of the mountain.<ref>{{Citation |last=Mills |first=A. D. |title=Snowdonia |date=2011-01-01 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199609086.001.0001/acref-9780199609086-e-12093 |work=A Dictionary of British Place Names |access-date=2023-06-09 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/acref/9780199609086.001.0001 |isbn=978-0-19-960908-6}}</ref>

The origins of {{lang|cy|Eryri}} are less clear. Two popular interpretations are that the name is related to {{lang|cy|eryr}}, 'eagle', or that it means 'highlands' and is related to the [[Latin]] {{lang|la|oriri}} ('to rise'). The latter is considered more correct, for {{lang|cy|eryri}} as a plural form means 'uplands', but it is not any direct form of the word {{lang|cy|eryr}} in the meaning 'eagle'.<ref>{{cite web |title=Snowdon Wales' Highest Mountain|url=http://www.snowdonwales.co.uk/wyddfa01.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044206/http://www.snowdonwales.co.uk/wyddfa01.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date=25 October 2015 |work=snowdonwales.co.uk}}</ref><ref>''Celtic Culture'', 2006, ed. by John T. Koch, p. 719</ref><ref>{{lang|cy|Ifor Williams, ''Enwau Lleoedd''|italic=unset}} (Liverpool, 1945), p. 18. Compare the late professor's article in ''Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies'', vol. iv, pp. 137–41. The plural of Welsh {{lang|cy|eryr}} ('eagle') is {{lang|cy|eryrod}} or {{lang|cy|eryron}}, with no example of a form {{lang|cy|eryri}} being attested. A second word {{lang|cy|eryr}}, plural {{lang|cy|eryri}}, means 'shingles' in modern Welsh; in the old Welsh place name this suggests uneven or upraised ground, a land of hills; 'the uplands' or 'highlands'</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=https://geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?eryr |title=eryr |dictionary=[[Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru]] |publisher=[[University of Wales Press]] }}</ref>