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Do compound words like this often take the stress away from the usual penultimate syllable?
It's a town. From Wikipedia:
Welsh: Abergwaun, meaning "Mouth of the River Gwaun".
English: The town name Fishguard derives from old Norse fiskigarðr meaning "fish catching enclosure", indicating that there may have been a Scandinavian trading post, although no evidence has been found.
"fiski" means "to fish" and "garðr" means "garden" or "yard". "fiskigarðr" then means "to-fish yard" or "to-fish garden" which ends up meaning "fishing yard" or "fishing garden"
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It's a place. See the only other thread on this page where this question was already asked and answered. The Wikipedia article linked there also talks about the origin of this name.
As an American learning Welsh because of it being the base language for.Elvish.. What the hell is a fishguard?
