The name Gawain is usually given to a Boy.
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The origin of the name lies in Welsh.
Gawain is pronounced as g-WAYN
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Gawain originates in Welsh language and means "hawk of white". In Arthurian legends, Gawain was one of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, known from the legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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Meaning
Meaning uncertain, from the Latin form
Gualguainus used in the 12th-century chronicles of
Geoffrey of Monmouth (appearing also as
Walganus, Gwalguanus and other spellings in different copies of the text), where
He is one of the knights who serve his uncle
King Arthur.
He can be identified with the earlier
Welsh hero
Gwalchmai, and it is possible that the name derives from
Gwalchmai or a misreading of it.
Gawain was a popular hero in medieval tales such as those by Chrétien de Troyes, where his name appears in the
French form
Gauvain or Gauvains.
He is the main character of the 14th-century anonymous poem Sir
Gawain and the
Green Knight, in which
He accepts a potentially fatal challenge from the mysterious
Green Knight.
Pronunciation
/ɡə.ˈweɪn/(English) /ˈɡɑː.wɪn/(English)