From: noone@invalid.com   
      
   on 20/03/2015, Paul S. Person supposed :   
   > On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:19:46 -0700 (PDT), bthumper.bs@gmail.com wrote:   
   >   
   >> It is also a celtic name meaning:house of joy   
   >   
   > According to http://www.babynames.com/name/Eowyn, it means "horse of   
   > joy" and was created by JRRT.   
      
   I would have said, Eo - Horse, Wyn - Woman.  I cannot find a reference,   
   but I'm pretty sure that is it - wen, cwen, wyn etc are all words for   
   woman (in Old English), and go on to form the basis for queen (the   
   word, not the rock group.) I have no idea where the "joy" bit came from   
      
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