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=Full Name Desired=
=Sáerlaith Conwy=
*Basic info about the name: culture, meaning, sound...
*Middle Irish Gaelic given name Sáerlaith and the Welsh locative byname Conwy.


=Given Name=
As the given name is dated 969, and MI Gaelic and Welsh are compatible but not in the same language family, that means I'm looking for documentation for Conwy dated 1269 or *earlier*.  We've got a .
*''Documentation for name''
 
, and I cannot find any other documentation for it to make it later and more compatible with Conwy.  Thus, I need to date Conwy earlier to make it compatible.
 
=Sáerlaith=
* Sáerlaith - Mari's Irish Annals has a single instance, dated 969 - https://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/all.shtml




=Byname/Surname=
=Byname/Surname=
*''Documentation for name''
* Conwy castle - there exists a petition mentioning Conwy castle, by this spelling, dated to 1378-1390
* Apparently, Edward I started building Conwy Castle in 1283. Before that, there was a monastery at that place, which
historians call Aberconwy. This was on the bank of the Conwy River...
 




=Combination=
=Combination=
*''Documentation for the combination of the names''
* MI Gaelic and Welsh are a compatible lingual mix per SENA Appendix C
* ''Needed if lingual mix, temporal incompatibility, double-given name, etc.
* MI Gaelic and Welsh are not in the same language family, so elements need to be within 300 years of each other, ''ibid''

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Sáerlaith Conwy

  • Middle Irish Gaelic given name Sáerlaith and the Welsh locative byname Conwy.

As the given name is dated 969, and MI Gaelic and Welsh are compatible but not in the same language family, that means I'm looking for documentation for Conwy dated 1269 or *earlier*. We've got a .

, and I cannot find any other documentation for it to make it later and more compatible with Conwy. Thus, I need to date Conwy earlier to make it compatible.

Sáerlaith


Byname/Surname

  • Conwy castle - there exists a petition mentioning Conwy castle, by this spelling, dated to 1378-1390
  • Apparently, Edward I started building Conwy Castle in 1283. Before that, there was a monastery at that place, which

historians call Aberconwy. This was on the bank of the Conwy River...


Combination

  • MI Gaelic and Welsh are a compatible lingual mix per SENA Appendix C
  • MI Gaelic and Welsh are not in the same language family, so elements need to be within 300 years of each other, ibid