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“victorious”
/ˈbiːðɪɡ/ · Welsh (South Wales)
01 / Meaning & origin
Buddug is a feminine given name documented in Welsh. English Wiktionary traces it to Proto-Celtic *Boudīkā. English Wikipedia gives the meaning “victorious”.
Meaning: “victorious”
Inherited from Proto-Brythonic *Bʉðig, from Proto-Celtic *Boudīkā. Analysable as coming from buddug (“victorious”). Sometimes used to translate the name Victoria (as with Queen Victoria), of which Welsh Fictoria is a direct borrowing from English.
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BUDDUG— “victory”
Ced, or Cyridwen, shows no namesakes; but _buadh_, or _budd_, victory, furnished for her the epithet of Buddug, or Buddud; and, perhaps, she is the Boundonica mentioned by Dion Cassius as a Keltic goddess. Probably it was either as a victorious omen, or else in honour of her, that the name of Buddug was given to that fierce chieftainess of the Iceni, whose savage vengeance for her wrongs has won for her a very disproportionate fame, as much changed as her name, when we call…
Ced, or Cyridwen, shows no namesakes; but _buadh_, or _budd_, victory, furnished for her the epithet of Buddug, or Buddud; and, perhaps, she is the Boundonica mentioned by Dion Cassius as a Keltic goddess. Probably it was either as a victorious omen, or else in honour of her, that the name of Buddug was given to that fierce chieftainess of the Iceni, whose savage vengeance for her wrongs has won for her a very disproportionate fame, as much changed as her name, when we call it Bonduca, or, more usually, Boadicea. It has not met with much repetition, yet we have heard of a family so patriotic as to contain both Caractacus and Boadicea. Buadhach was, however, long a man’s name in Ireland, and Budhic was one of the early Armorican princes.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part V, Chapter II (Ancient Keltic Names), Section I (Welsh Mythic Names) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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