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Origin of the name GUINGAMOR.
Etymology of the
name GUINGAMOR.
Meaning of the baby name GUINGAMOR.
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GUINGAMOR. Breton
Arthurian name, probably meaning "greatly fair."
... The prose romances supply
us with... only scattered allusions to Guiomar,
all of which represent him as among the favored and gallant knights of
Arthur. To answer our question we must in the first place
recall the experiences of the hero, Guingamor, celebrated in Breton
lays. His name Zimmer regards as a development of Guigomar.
The change of the termination -omar to -amor, -amuer,
Zimmer explains as the result of a confusion between -omar and
the common Breton termination -mor, -mer, -muer,
which means great; and the Guin- for Gui- in the
first member as developed by analogy with the many Breton names in which
Guin-, Guen- forms the first syllable. This merely
indicates that the forms Guingamor, Guingamuer are
transparent, and even if not connected phonologically with Guigomar
might by popular usage easily arise from it... (Studies in the Fairy
Mythology of Arthurian Romance, Paton, 1903).
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