Note 20 — Chapter IX · Place-name Stories
Reading edition
Menw’s name is to be equated with the Irish word menb, ‘little, small,’ and connected with the Welsh derivative di-fenw-i, ‘belittling or reviling’: it will be seen that he takes the form of a bird, and his designation Menw fab Teirgwaeđ might perhaps be rendered ‘Little, son of Three-Cries.’ ↑