BRETON NAMES / LES NOMMES BRETON
thom...@haven.ios.com
Hello, I am an American who has a Breton last name. I would like to
know how to pronouce the name "SINQUIN" with the breton pronounciation
and also I would like to know what it means. If some one could send me
a sound file I would greatly appreciate it.
Salut, Je suis un Americain (et je ne parle pas tres bon le Francais)
avec le nom Breton "SINQUIN". Je veux apprender comment dits ons cette
nom et aussi que est ce que ca veux dir 'Sinquin'. Ci quelquin poudrai
mander une 'sound file' ca va tres bon avec moi.
Denise Derrien-Peden
thom...@haven.ios.com wrote:
>
> Hello, I am an American who has a Breton last name. I would like to
> know how to pronouce the name "SINQUIN" with the breton pronounciation
> and also I would like to know what it means. If some one could send me
> a sound file I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Salut, Je suis un Americain (et je ne parle pas tres bon le Francais)
> avec le nom Breton "SINQUIN".
Hello,
I didn't find this name in my book about breton names,
so I searched it in an online Minitel server :
This name is mainly beared in Brittany (Finistere and Morbihan)
but it probably comes from old french, not breton.
Their hypothesis is that it comes from the old word "Cinquain" which
was a liquid measure (a fifth of a barrel).
About 800 persons are still called SINQUIN in France (mainly
in Brittany) - according to their estimation.
You should pronounce it like the french numbers : cinq(5), un(1)
(some of my ancestors, around 1750, had this name)
Do you know from which breton town or village, did your family emigrate?
RUVOEN Francois (Stag. de F.Terrier)
In article <322696...@irisa.fr>,
Alain Cedelle <ced...@irisa.fr> writes:
> thom...@haven.ios.com wrote:
>>
>> Hello, I am an American who has a Breton last name. I would like to
>> know how to pronouce the name "SINQUIN" with the breton pronounciation
>
> that it could be breton ?
Ce nom est assez repandu dans l'ouest de la Bretagne. Ca me surprendrait
que ce soit un nom francais ...
Quant a sa signification, je n'en ai aucune idee.
--
Francois J. Ruvoen | Actuellement en stage au CEA
Universite de Bretagne Occidentale |
Skol Veur Breiz Izel |
Alain Cedelle
thom...@haven.ios.com wrote:
>
> Hello, I am an American who has a Breton last name. I would like to
> know how to pronouce the name "SINQUIN" with the breton pronounciation
> a sound file I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Salut, Je suis un Americain (et je ne parle pas tres bon le Francais)
> avec le nom Breton "SINQUIN".
I fail to see any breton root in SINQUIN. How did you came to the idea
that it could be breton ?
Would you know about the origin of the name ?
Maybe an other written form ? Saint Kin ? Saint Cast ? ...
a.c.
DRSiencyns
>Hello, I am an American who has a Breton last name. I would like to
>know how to pronouce the name "SINQUIN" with the breton pronounciation
>and also I would like to know what it means.
Just a guess. Could this be a form of Jenkins? Is "si" pronounced "sh" in
Breton as in Welsh???
David Jenkins