Thanks all for your fascinating input.
According to the glossary of a Welsh-English book called _Y Seint
Grael_ by Rev Robert Williams (translator & editor) 1875,
Drych means 'appearance'
tan means 'thy'
ten means 'fiery'
That said, the word Drychten does not appear in that book. Nor
Dryghten or any other variant.
So, without a Welsh linguist, it cannot be concluded that Drych and tan
or ten are every coupled in that language
to mean what certain folklorists of modern pagan trads might wish to
assert.
Felicia Swayne-Heidrick
On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Thomas K. Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Thomas K. Johnson wrote:
>
> Quoting a Feri list:
>> "It still seems of some value to me, to have a seperate Feri homonym
>> name Drychten or Drychtan, meaning the Lady of the Mirror."
>
> And according to the lexicon Y Geiriadur Mawr of Christopher Davies,
> "drych" means "mirror", so all we have to do is find some kind of rule
> to create the suffix "-tan" meaning something like "of the"
>
> And that's as far as I'm going to take this,
>
> Tom
>
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