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Source-reportedOne variant name of the daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan.
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- Wiktionary: NestCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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A given name in Welsh
/ˈnɛst/ · Welsh
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Nest is a feminine given name documented in Welsh. English Wiktionary records an etymology for it.
One variant name of the daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan.
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Nest— “pure”
A saint who was the object of so many legends could not fail of numerous votaries, and Agnes was common in England and Scotland, and was a royal name in France and Germany. The Welsh form is Nest. A Welsh Nest was the mother of Earl Robert of Gloucester. Iñes, as the Spaniards make it, indicating the liquid sound of the _gn_ by the cedilla, gained a mournful fame in Portugal by the fate of Iñez de Castro, and Iñesila has been derived from it, while the former English taste…
A saint who was the object of so many legends could not fail of numerous votaries, and Agnes was common in England and Scotland, and was a royal name in France and Germany. The Welsh form is Nest. A Welsh Nest was the mother of Earl Robert of Gloucester. Iñes, as the Spaniards make it, indicating the liquid sound of the _gn_ by the cedilla, gained a mournful fame in Portugal by the fate of Iñez de Castro, and Iñesila has been derived from it, while the former English taste for stately terminations to simple old names made the word Agneta. It is more common in Devonshire than in other counties. In Durham, there is a curious custom of calling any female of weak intellect, “a Silly Agnes.” Italy has invented the masculine Agnolo and Agnello, often confounded with Angelo, and used as its contraction.[47]
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part III, Chapter V (Christian Greek Names), Section XII (Agnes) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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