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Anglesey ((ウェールズ語:Ynys Môn), (:ˈənɨs ˈmoːn)) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. With an area of ,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Anglesey Nature introduction )〕 Anglesey is by far the largest island of Wales and the fifth-largest island surrounding Great Britain (and the largest outside of Scotland). Anglesey is also the largest island in the Irish Sea by area, and the second most populous island in the Irish Sea (after the Isle of Man).〔C.Michael Hogan. 2011. (''Irish Sea''. eds P.Saundry & C.Cleveland. encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC )〕 The population at the 2011 census was 69,751.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Local Authority population 2011 )〕 Two bridges span the Menai Strait, connecting the island to the mainland: the Menai Suspension Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford in 1826, and the Britannia Bridge. Formerly a historic county of Wales and later part of Gwynedd, Anglesey today makes up the Isle of Anglesey County along with Holy Island and other smaller islands.〔The National Archives of the United Kingdom. Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, (Schedule 1: The New Principal Areas ). Accessed 6 February 2013.〕 Almost three-quarters of Anglesey's inhabitants are Welsh speakers〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Office for National Statistics (ONS) - ONS )〕 and Ynys Môn, the Welsh name for the island, is used for the UK Parliament and National Assembly constituencies. ==Etymology== "Anglesey" is derived from Old Norse, originally meaning either ''ǫngullsey'' ("Hook Island")〔Peterson, Lena & al. "''(Nordiskt runnamnslexikon )''" ("Dictionary of Names from Runic Inscriptions"), p. 116. May 2001. Accessed 6 June 2012.〕 or ''Ǫnglisey'' ("Ǫngli's Island").〔〔Room, Adrian. ''(Placenames of the World )'', p. 30. McFarland, 2003. Accessed 6 February 2013.〕 No record of any such Ǫngli survives,〔Kovach, Warren. "(Anglesey, Wales )". 19 October 2012.〕 but the place name was used by Viking raiders as early as the 10th century and was later adopted by the Normans during their invasions of Gwynedd.〔Davies, John. ''A History of Wales'', pp. 9899.〕 The traditional folk etymology reading the name as the "Island of the English"〔The ''London Encyclopaedia''. "(Anglesey )". Tegg (London), 1839. Accessed 6 February 2013.〕 may account for its Norman use but is without merit,〔 although the Angles' name itself is probably a cognate reference to the shape of the Angeln peninsula. All of these ultimately derive from the proposed Proto-Indo-European root '' *ank-'' ("to flex, bend, angle").〔University of Texas at Austin's Linguistics Research Center. "(Proto-Indo-European Etyma 9.14 ): Physical Acts & Materials: to Bend". 17 May 2011. Accessed 6 February 2013.〕 It was also formerly spelled as Anglesea. ''Ynys Môn'', the island's Welsh name, was first recorded as Latin ''Mona'' by various Roman sources.〔Tacitus. ''Annals'', (XIV.29 ). and ''Agricola'', XIV.14 & 18. Accessed 6 April 2013.〕〔Pliny. ''Natural History'', (IV.30. ) Accessed 6 April 2013.〕〔Dio Cassius. ''Roman History'', (62 ).〕 It was likewise known to the Saxons as ''Monez''.〔''The Present State of the British Empire in Europe, America, Africa, and Asia''. "(Wales. Anglesea )". Griffith (London), 1768.〕 The Brittonic original was in the past taken to have meant "Island of the Cow".〔Davies, Edward. ''(The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids )'', p. 177. Booth (London), 1809. Accessed 6 February 2013.〕 This view is linguistically untenable, however, according to modern scientific philology. The etymology thus currently remains a mystery. Poetic names for Anglesey include the Old Welsh ''Ynys Dywyll'' ("Shady" or "Dark Isle") for its former groves and ''Ynys y Cedairn'' ("Isle of the Brave") for its royal courts;〔 Gerald of Wales's ''Môn Mam Cymru'' ("Môn, Mother of Wales") for its productivity;〔 and ''Y fêl Ynys'' ("Honey Isle"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anglesey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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