Editing Gwyn ap Nudd (section)

==Etymology==
''Gwyn'' means "fair, bright, white", cognate with the [[Irish language|Irish]] ''fionn'', both deriving from a reconstructed [[Common Celtic]] stem ''*windos'' 'the white one'.<ref name="Proto-Celtic">Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, [[University of Wales]]. "[http://www.wales.ac.uk/documents/external/cawcs/pcl-moe.pdf Proto-Celtic—English lexicon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060114133008/http://www.wales.ac.uk/documents/external/cawcs/pcl-moe.pdf |date=2006-01-14 }}." (See also [http://www.wales.ac.uk/newpages/EXTERNAL/E4504.asp this page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310203645/http://www.wales.ac.uk/newpages/EXTERNAL/E4504.asp |date=2007-03-10 }} for background and disclaimers.)</ref><ref name="Sims-Williams">{{cite book |first=Patrick |last=Sims-Williams |chapter=Some Celtic Otherworld Terms |title=Celtic Language, Celtic Culture: a Festschrift for Eric P. Hamp |date=1990 |publisher=Ford & Bailie Publishers |page=58}}</ref> As such, he has some connection to the [[Irish mythology|Irish]] hero [[Fionn mac Cumhail]],<ref name="Sims-Williams"/><ref>{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Mark |title=Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth |pages=194-247 [198] |location=Princeton |publisher=Princeton University Press |date=2017 |doi=10.1515/9781400883325-009 |quote= Linguistically cognate with Irish Finn is Welsh ''Gwynn'', a figure who appears in Welsh tradition as a supernatural hunter ...}}</ref> whose maternal great-grandfather was [[Nuada]]. The name of Gwyn's father, Nudd, appears like Nuada to be cognate with the [[Celtic mythology|Brythonic]] [[deity]] [[Nodens]].<ref>[[J. R. R. Tolkien]]. 1932. "Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London" ([[Nodens|quoted here]]).</ref>

''Gwyn'' is in everyday use as a common noun and adjective: it also remains a popular personal name. Especially in Old and Middle Welsh, "gwyn" also has the connotations of "pure, sacred, holy".