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) unfamiliar with Welsh naming conventions, and has been confused with the Welsh name "Moreiddig" (which has produced "Moredik", "Moriddik" and "Morithik"). By the early Middle Ages, the name took the form of "Mereduc", in part due to "its suitability for taking Latin case-endings". The name has been rendered into Latin as "Mereducco", "Mereduci", "Mereduth", "Mereduco", "Mereduc" and "Mereducus", "Mereducius". In the dialect of Dyfed (Pembrokeshire) the final voiced interdental fricative (represented in writing by "dd") was lost to produce the name "Meredy". Though there is no etymological connection, "Meredith" has also been equated or associated with "Merrick", "Meyrick," and "Moryce",