Berwyn

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Welsh Berwyn.

Proper noun

Berwyn (plural Berwyns)

1. (in the plural) A mountain range in northeastern Wales.

   Synonyms: the Berwyn mountains, the Berwyn range

2. A locality and railway station on a heritage railway in Llangollen community, Denbighshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ1943).
3. A village in the Municipal District of Peace, No. 135, in northwestern Alberta, Canada.
4. A city and township in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
   • 2024 December 6, “Battery Charge For Racist Nick Fuentes”, in The Smoking Gun‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 February 2025:

     Marla Rose, a 57-year-old Berwyn resident, told cops that after seeing an online Fuentes post “in regards to women’s rights” that declared, “Your body my choice,” she decided to “record a video” of Fuentes’s Berwyn property.

5. A township and village therein, in Custer County, Nebraska, United States.
6. A census-designated place in Easttown Township and Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.
7. Former name of Gene Autry, Oklahoma, renamed in 1941.

Welsh

Etymology

From bar (“summit”) +‎ gwyn (“white”).

Proper noun

y Berwyn m

1. a mountain range in northeastern Wales

   a locality and railway station on a heritage railway in Llangollen community, Denbighshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ1943)

Derived terms

• mwyar y Berwyn (“cloudberries”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of Berwyn

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Berwyn	Ferwyn	Merwyn	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.