Cor Yn

[Xurxo]

Hello, can anybody tell me what is the exact meaning of "Cor Yn"? Here in Galiza (North of Portugal, West of Spain) we have an important city called Corunha (Corunna) in English and I have read it comes from these words but I´m not sure whit the translation: "narrow point"?

[Aberdeenkid]

There is a village called Corunna on the St Clair River in Ontario. Wonder if there is a connection with your Corunha?

[aNonnyMoose]

"Cor Yn" sounds Welsh. A quick Google brings up many Welsh language sites with the phrase.

[Celyn]

Seconding NonnyMoose - it definitely looks like Welsh, so if you were looking for a meaning in Gaelic, probably best not bother - there's no letter "Y" in Gaelic, I think.

Sadly, I can't tell you what it means though - mae dim geriadur gyda fi ( I don't have a dictionary)

Still I think there are a couple of Welsh dictinaries online that you might find.

[Celyn]

Originally posted by aNonnyMoose
"Cor Yn" sounds Welsh. A quick Google brings up many Welsh language sites with the phrase.

Oh woe - I just had a quick Google too, and it does indeed throw up a ton of links those two words as a phrase , but they all seemed to be referring to

xxxxxx choir singing xxxxx (ie yn canu" liiterally "in singing" or "yn eglwys whatever" = "in whatever church".

whic is not much good if the required context is a place name, I suppose.

[Celyn]

Some Google references have it occuring in the Manx language but I had no luck with the Manx dictionary.

IS it meant to be a place name, and does your source mention what language it should be?

[Xurxo]

It mentions it should be "goidelic", but I don`t know exactly if it is refered to Irish Galeic, Scots Gaelic or Manx...

There are 333 (that's nice, 3 was a magic number for Celts) results in Google for "Cor Yn" : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...=Google+Search, but I can't understand any of it...