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PRYDERI Name Origin: celtic

Name Meaning: care

Name Gender: Male / Boy baby name

Pryderi

Name: Mallolwch
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Title: Origin of Pryderi

Comments: The name Pryderi arises in each of the four branches of the Mabinogi, and is the factor which unites these legends.
The legends known as "The Four Branches of the Mabinogi" had their origins in the west of Ireland, in the environs of the royal palace called 'Regia Altera' in Ptolemy's map of Hibernia. Taken to Wales by marauding Welsh Normans in the last quarter of the 12th century, they were redacted, translated to Welsh and embedded into the landscape of Wales for the enhancement of that principality. Many of the original names of people and places were retained, but were written phonetically in Middle Welsh, e.g. Mabinogi, annwfn, Mallolwch, Arawn, etc. One such name is 'Pryderi'.

An Irish speaker, hearing the sound 'Pry-deri' would think: "chief from the stern", or "principal from the posterior" or "first/prime from the buttocks"- the Irish words which would come to mind being "pr'imh-dheiridh". In this compound word 'mh' is frequently silent in western and northern gaelic dialects, and the final 'dh' is nowhere pronounced, so that the listener hears only 'pr'i-dheiri', scribed phonetically as 'Pryderi' in Middle Welsh..
As to the meaning "first from the buttocks", Pryderi was the first-born child of Pwyll and Rhiannon.
As to the pronunciation of Pryderi, "pree-jerry" is as close to perfection as ought be expected.
[Note: See 'pr'iomh and 'deire' (Or deireadh) in any Irish-English dictionary.]

Source: Irish language.