Enid (given name) Enid (given name) Enid ( ; ) is a feminine given name. The origin is Middle Welsh "eneit", meaning "spirit, life" (from Proto-Celtic "*ana-ti̯o-", compare Gaulish "anatia" "souls" attested on the Larzac tablet, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root "*h₂enh₁-" "to breathe, blow"; "cf." the modern Welsh "anadl", "breath" or "wind"). Alternatively Enid may be derived from "Enaid" or "Enit" meaning "woodlark". Enid was the Celtic goddess and Arthurian name of the 19th century following Alfred Lord Tennyson's Arthurian epic "Idylls of the King" (1859) and its medieval Welsh source, the "Mabinogi" tale of "Geraint and Enid." Enid drifted into popular
Meredith (given name) as "Gruffydd" and "Bleidd[i]udd". However, in Middle Welsh (c. 1150s–1300s) the name was most commonly spelt as "Maredud" and "Maredudd"; "in Welsh, the accent is on the penult, and this leads at times to the elision of the vowel of the first syllable," producing an early variant "Mredydd", according to T.J. Morgan and Prys Morgan. Anglo-Norman scribes often used "e" for the first syllable and substituting the double "d" with a "th", producing "Mereduth". The forms "Meredith" and "Meredyth" are seen as early as the 14th century. In Medieval manuscripts, the name is frequently "disguised" in records produced by scribes