Correct form of Iron Age British names

[cagwinn]

My gynt, the one that is derived from Latin gentes, means (to quote the Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru) "tribe, people, nation, especially the pagan nations that harassed the Welsh, namely the Scandinavians and the Danes, also the English and the Normans."

Good, I'm glad we have dispensed with the one to one correspondence, gynt = heathen and moved on to an interpretive use of the word.

Are you interested in learning something, or just arguing? Because I don't have time for arguments - especially not with people who can't even admit that they are wrong about something (re: your confusion of the two gynt words). I suggest you research the medieval usage of the Latin word gentes - it meant both "people, tribe" (as the plural of gens) and, in Christian terminology, "heathens"; this was its primary meaning in medieval Welsh (the same word was borrowed by the Irish, via Christian Britons, as genti "heathens", later "Norsemen").