Enid
[ee-nid] /ˈi nɪd/
noun
1.
a city in N Oklahoma.
2.
Arthurian Romance. the constant and patient wife of Sir Geraint in The Mabinogion and in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King.
3.
a female given name.
/ˈiːnɪd/
noun
1.
(in Arthurian legend) the faithful wife of Geraint
fem. proper name, from Middle Welsh eneit, “purity,” literally “soul,” from PIE *ane-tyo-, from root *ane- “to breathe” (see animus).
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