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It's a Cornish variant of Guinevere which comes from a Welsh root.

(Yes, here is a Cornish language.)

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The English spelling "Jennifer" is thought to come originally from the Welsh name "Gwenhwyfar," which means "fair" (gwen-) and "docile" (-[g]hwyfar). The root "gwen" means additionally "white," "beautiful," or "blessed" in various contexts. "Gwenhwyfar" is also spelled "Guinevere," although both spellings are pronounced roughly the same. The name can be taken to mean "fair and yielding [girl]," or more loosely "the fair one."


Welsh is very closely related to Cornish, and it is thought that the form "Jennifer" comes from the Cornish version of the same Welsh name.


(Another theories on the origin of this name connect it not to "Guinevere" but to the ancestor of our modern word "juniper," the bluish cypress, but this doesn't respond to your specific question.)

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Jennifer means "the fair one" in Cornish.

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