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01 / Meaning & origin
Gwalchmai is a masculine given name documented in Welsh.
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GWALCHMAI— “hawk of battle”
No knight is more distinguished, either in the _Triads_ or in romance, than Gwalchmai, perhaps from Gwalch, a hawk, and maedd, a blow.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part V, Chapter IV (Names Of Cymric Romance), Section IV (Gwalchmai, Sir Gawain, and Sir Owen) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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