feminine Linnet

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Origin:
welsh
Name Root:
(EILUN) (LINNE > LLYN)
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This name is a diminutive of Eluned and Luned. It is of Welsh and Scottish (Gaelic) origin and comes from the roots: (eilun) plus (linne > llyn). In modern times it is also regarded as a diminutive of Lynn. Saint Eluned (Welsh: Eiliwedd) was a 5th or 6th-century virgin martyr from modern Brecon. The Catholic Encyclopedia (1909) calls her “the Luned of the Mabinogion and the Lynette of Tennyson’s Gareth and Lynette.” Her small chapel and holy well at what is now Slwch Tump were destroyed during the English Reformation.

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Numerological Values: #2

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Chakra Number: #2
Sacral Chakra "Swadhisthana"

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