Enid (given name) years in print. 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
Hugh (given name) declension nominative into Middle Latin ("Hugo, Hugonis"); in English, however, historical figures of the continental Middle Ages are conventionally given the name in its modern English spelling, as in Hugh Capet (941–996), Hugh Magnus of France (1007–1025), Hugh of Cluny (1024–1109), Hugh of Châteauneuf (1053–1132), etc. Modern variants of the name include German "Hugo" and "Uwe", Dutch "Huig", Frisian "Hauke", Welsh "Huw", Italian "Ugo". In the tradition of anglicisation of Gaelic names by using similar-sounding, but etymologically unrelated replacements, "Hugh" also serves as a replacement for "Aodh" and "Ùisdean" (see Hughes (surname), Hughes (given name)). Hugh (given name) Hugh is