Pendragon I was told meant ';son-of-the-dragon'; is this true and if so would it go to say that Penogre would be?

';Son-of-the-ogre?'; working on a story and unsure if that is correctPendragon I was told meant ';son-of-the-dragon'; is this true and if so would it go to say that Penogre would be?
No, not really ... that interpretation is a bit of an urban myth, inspired I think by confusion with the Hebrew ';Ben';, as in ';Ben Hur'; (Son of Hur).





The prefix Pen- is Cornish Celtic for ';head';, in both a geographical sense (as in Penzance) and in the metaphorical sense of ';chief';. The Pendragon (';head dragon';) was the federal warchief of the British Celtic tribes.





As the first answerer says, it wouldn't be authentic to mix elements of different origins within a name, particularly as 'Pen-' is about 1,000 years older than 'ogre', which is actually a word from Norse mythology which came to Britain with the Vikings.





I would suggest ';Penkowr'; ('kowr' means 'giant' according to Ken George's Cornish dictionary and I believe it has the same Indo-European origin as 'ogre').





Son of the ogre would (I think) be 'Mabgowr'.Pendragon I was told meant ';son-of-the-dragon'; is this true and if so would it go to say that Penogre would be?
The prefix 'pen' is a very old Angle word that does, indeed mean 'son of' but then you are mixing English 'dragon' with Angle (the Angles were the people who lived on Britian at the time of the coming of the Saxons, they mixed and became the Anglo-Saxons). If you are writing a book then some poetic license is allowed.