English Explanatory Dictionary

Bodfari

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village and community in Denbighshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ0970).

Pronunciation

/bɒdˈvæɹi/

Word forms

Bodfari

Etymology

From Welsh, where the first element is probably bod (“to be”), but the second is less certain. Possibly named after a saint *Tyfarre, a name that parallels the second element of the Irish Saint Fin Barre, a word meaning "head, tip," from Middle Welsh barr, with the honorific Welsh prefix ty- (“revered, honored”), similar to Tyfrydog. If so, the development could have been Bod Tyfarre > Botfarre > Botfarri > Bodfari.

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