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Merioneth

Merioneth

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Merionethshire.

Name

'Merioneth' is an anglicisation of the Welsh placename Meirionnydd (for the geographical area) or Sir Feirionnydd (for the county), with a 'double' ⟨nn⟩, but the variant with a single ⟨n⟩ is sometimes found in older works