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T, t <TII>  [tiː] feminine noun
1
) twentieth letter of the twenty-six letter Roman alphabet
..1 a, 2 b, 3 c, 4 d 5 e, 6 f, 7 g, 8 h, 9 i, 10 j, 11 k, 12 l, 13 m, 14 n, 15 o, 16 p, 17 q, 18 r, 19 s, 20 t, 21 u, 22 v, 23 w, 24 x, 25 y, 26 z
2
) twenty-fifth letter of the twenty-nine letter Welsh alphabet
..1 a, 2 b, 3 c, 4 ch, 5 d, 6 dd 7 e, 8 f, 9 ff, 10 g, 11 ng, 12 h, 13 i, 14 j, 15 l, 16 ll, 17 m, 18 n, 19 o, 20 p, 21 ph, 22 r, 23 rh, 24 s, 25 t, 26 th, 27 u, 28 w, 29 y


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t
1
In compound words, t may be equivalent to d-d

ETYMOLOGY: cytir < cyd-dir (cyd- = joint) + soft mutation + ( tir = land)
Note: (d +d) > t

That is, the combination of
(final d [d]) + (d [d] resulting from soft mutation of t [t]) results in t [t]

..1/ atal: ad- (= prefix) + dal (= retain, hold)
> ad-dal
> atal (= stop, prevent)

..2/ Botwnnog: bod- (= church) + Tywynnog (= saint’s name)
> Bot-dywynnog
> Botywynnog >  Bot’wynnog > Bot’w’nnog / Botwnnog (village name)

..3/ llety: lled (= half) + ty (= house)
> lled-dy
> llety (= inn, shelter)

..4/ lowtre: gwaelawd (= bottom) + (tref = house)
> gwaelawd-dref
> gwaelawtref
> gwaelawtre
> ’lawtre / lawtre
> lowtre (county of Ceredigion) (= tumbledown house)

..5/ troetrwm: troed (= foot) + trwm (= heavy)
> troed-drwm
> troetrwm (= heavy-footed)

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2 In compound words and derivative words, t may be equivalent to d-dd
It is the result of the combination of a final “d” and an initial “dd” which is a soft mutation of “d”
(d + dd = t)

..1/ diotyn: diod (= drink) + dyn (= man)
> diod-ddyn
> diotyn (= drunkard)

..2/ tafotrwg: tafod (= tongue) + drwg (= bad)
> tafod-ddrwg
> tafotrwg (= foulmouthed)

..7/ ynfytyn: ynfyd (= mad) + dyn (= man)
> ynfyd-ddyn
> ynfytyn (= madman)
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3 In compound words and derivative words, t may be equivalent to d-h
d + h = t

..a/ especially with the verbal suffix –ha

pereríndod (= pilgrimage) + -ha > pererindód-ha > pererindota (= go on pilgirimages)

mérched (= women) + -ha > merchéd-ha > mercheta (= go with women)

pýsgod (= fish) + -ha > pysgód-ha > pysgota (= to fish)

týwod (= sand) + -ha > tywód-ha > tywota (= gather sand)

..b/ other examples

tafotrydd loose-tongued

Rhyd Halog (place name – ‘dirty ford’) > Rhy Talog (spelt Rhytalog - for example, name of a place in the county of Y Fflint SJ2354)

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t
1 Note that in some wo
rds from Welsh used in English, in English a
‹t› has replaced Welsh ‹d›.
This may be from a strongly aspirated initial
‹d› sounding more like a ‹t› to English speakers

Examples are:
..a/ Dafydd (= David) > English “Taffy”

..b/ Dinbych y Pysgod (name of a town) > English “Tenby”

..c/ Dindyrn (name of an abbey) > English “Tintern”

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t
1 monosyllables with fi
nal t (the majority are loans from English)

bôt that you may be
wyt you are

From English:

bat bat (for ball)
cit kit
cot coat (south)
côt coat (north)
cot cot
crwt boy
dêt date (arranged meeting / encounter) 
dot dot
ffit fit = attack; fit = suitable
fflat flat, apartment
fôt vote
gât / giât gate
grot groat coin (south)
grôt groat coin (north)
hat hat (South)
het hat
lot lot, great amount
mat mat
plât plate
pot pot
set set
sêt seat

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't

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'ta

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ta <TA>  [ta]
(North-west Wales)
See ynteu

1
then
Rwan ta Now then

2
or
Hwn ta’r llall? This one or he other?

ALSO: ’ta (with an apostrophe to indicate the missing first syllable)

In North-west Wales final -eu /-au is pronounced -a
Thus ynteu > ynta
A common phenomenon in spoken Welsh is the loss of an initial pretonic syllable
Thus ynta > ’ta / ta

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ta

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ta / ‘ta

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ta

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Ta

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-ta

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taar

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tàb

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ta be

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tábernacl

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Tábernacl

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ta beth

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ta beth am ragor

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tàb gwarchod

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tabl, tablau ‹TABLl, TA-blau, -ble› [tabl, ˡtablaɪ, -ɛ] (masculine noun)
1
table (list of columns)

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tabl achau
family tree
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ta ble

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tabled

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tabled coffa

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tabled cysgu

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tabled lliniaru poen

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tablen

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tablenna

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tabl llanw

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tablo

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tablog

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tabloid

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tablu

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Tabor <TAA-bor>  [ˡtɑˑbɔr]
1
a mountain in Palestine, near Nazareth 588m; according to tradition, the place of the Transfiguration

2
name of certain Nonconformist chapels

3
in street names where there is or was a chapel of this name

..1/ Coed-poeth (county of Wrecsam).
(The name on maps is “Tabor Hill”. The Welsh name would be Bryntabor / Bryn Tabor)

..2/ Maes-teg (county of Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr).
(The name on maps is “Tabor Place”. The Welsh name would be Lletabor / Lle Tabor; Maestabor / Maes Tabor)

..3/ Maesycwmwr, Hengoed (county of Caerffili).
(The name on maps is “Tabor Road”. The Welsh name would be Heol Tabor)

..4/ Fynnon-taf (county of Rhondda-Cynon-Taf)
(The name on maps is “Tabor Street”. The Welsh name would be Heol Tabor)

4
Tabor There is a locality of this name by Dolgellau (county of Gwynedd); here there are  according to English maps houses called (in English) Tabor Cottages. The English name is certain to be a translation of the original Welsh name; one would expect the Welsh name to be Tai Tabor.

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tabw

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tabwrdd <TAA-burdh>  [ˡtɑˑbʊrð] masculine noun
PLURAL tabyrddau <ta-BƏR-dhai, -e>  [taˡbərðaɪ, -ɛ]
1
drum
ffon dabwrdd, ffyn tabwrdd drumstick

ETYMOLOGY: tabwrdd < tabwr < French tabour (either a direct borrowing from French. or indirectly via Middle English)

The final dd is probably due to the influence of the word bwrdd (= board, table).

Modern French has tabouret (= footstool). with the additon of a diminutive suffix -et.

In medieval music, a tabor / tabour was a small drum beaten with one hand, while the other played a three-holed pipe.

French tabour is possibly from Persian tabîr

A related word is English tambourine < Flemish tambourijn < tambourine (= little drum) < tambour < tabour.

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tabwrdd y plygain

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tabyrddu

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tac01

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tac02

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tac03

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Tachwedd (mis Tachwedd) <TAKH-wedh, miis-TAKH-wedh>  [ˡtaxwɛð, miːs ˡtaxwɛð] (masculine noun)
1
November

DATES:
1
Tachwedd (y cyntaf o Dachwedd)
the first of November
Calan Gaeaf (“(the) calend (of) winter”)
Colloquially  Clangaea o Glangaea
Also Gwyl yr Eneidiau ("(the) holy day (of) the souls")

2
Tachwedd (yr ail o Dachwedd)
the second of November
Gwyl yr Eneidiau (“(the) feastday (of) the souls”) = All Souls’ Day

3
Tachwedd (y trydydd o Dachwedd)
the third of November

4
Tachwedd (y pedwerydd o Dachwedd)
the fourth of November

5
Tachwedd (y pumed o Dachwedd)
the fifth of November

6 Tachwedd (y chweched o Dachwedd)
the sixth of November

7
Tachwedd (y seithfed o Dachwedd)
the seventh of November

8
Tachwedd (yr wythfed o Dachwedd)
the eighth of November

9
Tachwedd (y nawfed o Dachwedd)
the ninth of November

10
Tachwedd (y degfed o Dachwedd)
the tenth of November

11
Tachwedd (yr unfed ar ddeg o Dachwedd)
the eleventh of November
Gwyl Sant Martin (“(the) feastday (of) Saint Martin”) or
Gwyl Fartin (“(the) feastday (of) Saint Martin”) Martinmas

12
Tachwedd (y deuddegfed o Dachwedd)
the twelfth of November

13
Tachwedd (y trydydd ar ddeg o Dachwedd)
the thirteenth of November

14
Tachwedd (y pedwerydd ar ddeg o Dachwedd)
the fourteenth of November

15
Tachwedd (y pymthegfed o Dachwedd)
the fifteenth of November

16
Tachwedd (yr unfed ar bymtheg o Dachwedd)
the sixteenth of November

17
Tachwedd (yr ail ar bymtheg o Dachwedd)
the seventeenth of November

18
Tachwedd (y deunawfed o Dachwedd)
the eighteenth of November

19
Tachwedd (y pedwerydd ar bymtheg o Dachwedd)
the nineteenth of November

20
Tachwedd (yr ugeinfed o Dachwedd)
the twentieth of November

21
Tachwedd (yr unfed ar hugain o Dachwedd)
the twenty-first of November

22
Tachwedd (yr ail ar hugain o Dachwedd)
the twenty-second of November

23
Tachwedd (y trydydd ar hugain o Dachwedd)
the twenty-third of November

24
Tachwedd (y pedwerydd ar hugain o Dachwedd)
the twenty-fourth of November

25
Tachwedd (y pumed ar hugain o Dachwedd)
the twenty-fifth of November

26
Tachwedd (y chweched ar hugain o Dachwedd)
the twenty-sixth of November

27
Tachwedd (y seithfed ar hugain o Dachwedd)
the twenty-seventh of November

28
Tachwedd (yr wythfed ar hugain o Dachwedd)
the twenty-eighth of November

29
Tachwedd (y nawfed ar hugain o Dachwedd)
the twenty-ninth of November

30
Tachwedd (y degfed ar hugain o Dachwedd)
the thirtieth of November
Gwyl Andreas (“the) feastday (of) Andrew”) or
Gwyl Sant Andreas (“the) feastday (of) Saint Andrew”)
Saint Andrew’s Day

ETYMOLOGY: an obsolete word meaning “slaughter” – Tachwedd is “(the) (time) (of) slaughtering” -  that is, the slaughtering time for cattle before the winter to ensure a supply of meat and to reduce the stock of cattle so that the available feed would last until the spring)
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taci

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tacio

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tacl

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taclau

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taclau caru

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taclo <TAK-lo>  [ˡtaklɔ] (verb)
1 same as taclu (= to arrange)

cafflo bola i daclo pen to rob Peter to pay Paul (“deceive a belly to decorate a head”, deceive the belly to adorn the head, to skimp on essentials like food to buy fripperies like hats)

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taclu

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taclu'r ffenestr

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taclus

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tacluso

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taclusrwydd

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tacs

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tacsen

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tacsi, tacsis <TAK-si, TAK-siz>  [ˡtaksɪ, ˡtaksɪz] (masculine noun)
1
taxi

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tácsimedr

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tact

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tacteg, tactegau <TAK-teg, tak-TEE-gai, -e>  [ˡtaktɛg, takˡteˑgaɪ, -ɛ] (feminine noun)
1
tactic
tacteg arafu delaying tactic
tacteg arafol delaying tactic

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tactegol

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ta'-cu

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tad, tadau <TAAD, TAA-dai, -e>  [ˡtɑːd, ˡtɑˑdaɪ, -ɛ] (masculine noun)
1
father
2
y Tad Sanctaidd the Pope, the Holy Father

Mathew 28:19
yn enw'r Tad, a'r Mab, a'r Ysbryd Glân
in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost

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tada

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Tadau'r Eglwys

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tad bedydd ‹taad BEE-didh› (masculine noun)
tadau bedydd

1
godfather
tad a mam bedydd
godfather and godmother, godparents (no soft mutation, as it does not refer solely to the mother)

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tad-cu <tad-KII>  [tadˡkiː] (masculine noun)
1
grandfather

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tad distaw a wna fab difraw

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tadenw

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Tad fo'n gwarchod

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tad maeth

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 (y) Tad Nefol

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tadofalaeth

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tadofalaethol

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tadogaeth

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tadogi

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tadogiad

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tadol

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tad sanctaidd

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tad-yng-nghyfraith, tadau... <TAAD əng-HƏ-vraith, -vreth, TAA-dai, -de...>  [ˡtɑːd əŋ ˡhəvraɪθ, -ɛθ, ˡtadaɪ, -ɛ...] (masculine noun)
1
father-in-law

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tae

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taen

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taenedig

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taenelliad

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taenellu

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taenellwr dŵr, taenellwyr dŵr <tai-NE-lhur DUUR, tai-NELH-wir DUUR>  [taɪˡnɛɬʊr ˡduːr, taɪˡnɛɬˡwɪr ˡduːr] (masculine noun)
1
sprinkler (automatic fire extinguisher activated by sensing a higher than normal temperature)

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taenlen

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taenu <TEI-ni>  [ˡtəɪnɪ] (verb)
1
spread = disseminate

taenu clecs am rywun spread tales about somebody
Ni fu erioed yn euog o daenu chwedlau rhwng cymydogion fel y mae arfer rhai
He was never guilty of spreading tales amongst neighbours as was th practice of some people

2 taenu si bod... spread a rumor that

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taenu gwely drain

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taenwr

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taenwr si

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taeoctref

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taeog

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taeogaeth

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taeogaidd

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taeogrwydd

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taer <TAIR>  [taɪr] (adj)
1
earnest
2
ar gais taer (rhywun) at the urgent request of (somebody)

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taer ei gais

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taer erfyn

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taerineb

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taerni

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taeru <TEI-ri>  [ˡtəɪrɪ] (verb)
1
swear = declare to be true
Fe daerech mai Sais yw e You’d swear he was English (e.g. of a Welshman who has disguised or eliminated all signs of Welshness)

taeru'r du yn wyn swear blind, swear to God (“swear the black as white”)
Buon nhw’n taeru'r du yn wyn na welson nhw mohono erióed They swore to God they’s never seen him before

Rwy'n taeru fod pob gair o'm stori yn wir I sear that every word of mystory is true

2
wrangle, argue
taeru ynghylch rhywbeth â rhywun be in dispute about something with someone

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taerwr

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taerymgeisio

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’tae waeth am hynny

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Taf <TAAV>  [tɑːv] (feminine noun)
1
river in South-east Wales; see Caer-dydd, Llan-daf, Ffynnon-taf, Glyn-taf, Ystum-taf; anglicised as ‘Taff’

Heol Maes Taf street name in Pentre-bach, Merthyrtudful (“Maestaf Street”) “field (by the river) Taf” (maes = field, open land) + (Taf = river name)

2 river in South-west Wales; see Hendy-gwyn ar Daf

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tafal
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tafarn, tafarnau <TAA-varn, ta-VAR-nai, -e>  [ˡtɑˑvarn, taˡvarnaɪ, -ɛ] (masculine or feminine noun)
1
pub, tavern
y tafarn / y dafarn = the tavern

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(y) Tafarnau-bach

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tafarn datws <TAA-varn DA-tus>  [ˡtɑˑvarn ˡdatʊs] (feminine noun)
1
fish and chip shop (“tavern of potatoes”, “potato tavern”)

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tafarndy

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tafarn goetj

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Tafarngelyn

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tafarn goffi

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tafarn laeth

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tafarn min-ffordd

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tafarn rydd

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tafarnwr

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tafarnwraig

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Tafarn-y-bwlch

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Tafarn-y-gath

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Tafarnycelyn

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ta fatar am hynny

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ta-fe

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Taf-Elái

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tafell, tafellau / tafelli <TAA-velh, ta-VE-lhai, -e, -i>  [ˡtɑˑvɛɬ, taˡvɛɬaɪ, -ɛ, -ɪ] (feminine noun)
1
slice
y dafell = the slice

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tafell hufen

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tafellu

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Tàff

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 (y) Tàff

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Taf Fawr

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Taf Fechan

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taffi, taffis <TAA-fi, TAA-fiz>  [ˡtɑˑfɪ, ˡtɑˑfɪz] (masculine noun)
1
toffee
2
taffi almon
<TAA-fi AL-mon>  [tɑˑfɪ ˡalmɔn] almond toffee

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Taffi, Taffis <TAA-fi, TAA-fiz>  [ˡtɑˑfɪ, ˡtɑˑfɪz] (masculine noun)
1 ‘Taff, Taffy’; nickname given by the English to a Welsh person.
Popular etymology connects it with the river Taf
‹TAAV› ˡ[tɑːv] in South-east Wales, since it is anglicised as ‘Taff’.

In fact, it is from the common forename ‘Dafydd’ ‹DAA-vidh› <DAA-vidh>  [ˡdɑˑvɪð] or a short form of this ‘Dafi’ <DAA-vi>  [ˡdɑˑvɪ]. The strongly aspirated initial ‘D’ was heard as a ‘T’, and the ‘V’ heard as an ‘F’.

For the use in English of common forenames in a nationality for referring to a person of the nationality, compare ‘Paddy’ for an Irishman (from Irish Páidí, < Pádraig = Patrick), also ‘Mick’ (= Irishman) < Mícháil = Michael; ‘Taig’ used by Protestant Irish as an offensive name for a Catholic Irishman < Tadhgh, translated into English as Timothy, though there is in fact no connection apart from the fact that both have initial T!; and ‘Jock’ for a Scotsman (from the name ‘Jack’, a fond name for ‘John’, in the Lowlandic language)

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Taffia

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taffi almon

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tafl

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tafledigion

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taflegryn

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tafleisiaeth

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tafleisydd

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tafleisio

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taflen, taflenni <TAV-len, tav-LE-ni>  [ˡtavlɛn, tavˡlɛnɪ] (feminine noun)
1
leaflet

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Taflen

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taflen amser

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tafliad, tafliadau <TAVL-yad,-tavl-YAA-dai, -e>  [ˡtavljad, tavlˡjɑˑdaɪ, -ɛ] (m)
1
throw

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tafliad carreg <TAV-lyad KA-reg>  [ˡtavljad ˡkarɛg] m
1 stone's throw 

2 a short distance = the distance covered by a thrown stone 
o fewn tafliad carreg within a stone’s throw o fewn tafliad carreg i (qv) a stone’s throw from   

ETYMOLOGY: “(the) throw (of a) stone” (tafliad = throw) + (carreg = stone)

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taflod, taflodydd <TAV-lod, tav-LOO-didh>  [ˡtavlɔd, tavˡloˑdɪð] (feminine noun)
1
hayloft
y daflod = the hayloft

2
taflod y genau roof of the mouth, palate

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taflod hollt

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taflodol

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taflod y genau

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taflu <TAV-li>  [ˡtavlɪ] (verb)
1
throw

2
taflu arian da i ganlyn arian drwg throw good money after bad (“throw good money to follow bad money”)

3
taflu i dristwch cast into a gloom

4
taflu amheuon ar cast doubts on something, throw something into doubt

5
taflu at throw at
taflu pob cyhuddiad at throw the book at (“throw every accusation at”)

6
taflu (rhywbeth) ar y domen throw something onto the scrap heap (“on the heap”)
taflu (rhywbeth) dros ben y domen throw something onto the scrap heap (“over the top of the heap”)

7 taflu eich hun i ganol yr adwy rush to help (“throw youself into the middle of the breech”)

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taflu allan

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taflu anfri ar

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taflu ar led

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taflu at

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taflu babi allan efo'r d#r budr

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taflu carreg

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taflu cip

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taflu cipolwg

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taflu cwmwl dros

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taflu cwymp (cwmp)

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taflu cysgod dros...

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taflu dafnau

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taflu din dros ben

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taflu disiau

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taflu diystyrwch ar

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taflu d#r oer ar

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taflu ei gylchau = ei chylchau

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taflu ei llestr

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taflu ffarwel

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taflu fyny

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taflu gemau o flaen moch

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taflu golau

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taflu golwg

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taflu gwraidd

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taflu hints

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taflu (rhywbeth) i ban

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taflu i fyny

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taflu i'r twll mawr du

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taflu llwch i lygaid (rhywun)

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taflu llwch ar

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taflu llygad dros

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taflu maen â throsol

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tafluniad

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taflunio

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taflu oddi am

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taflu oddi ar ei echel = ei hechel

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taflu pêl i do

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taflu perlau o flaen moch

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taflu'r droed ola' mlaena'

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taflu'r garreg

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taflu sbrat i ddala macrell

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taflu sen

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taflu strap

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taflu + yn ôl

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taflu ymaith

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taflu yn ei ddannedd

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taflwr

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tafod, tafodau <TAA-vod, ta-VOO-dai, -e>  [ˡtɑˑvɔd, taˡvoˑdaɪ, -ɛ]  (masculine noun)
1
tongue

2
trwyn tafod sandspit
3 Y Tafod (“the tongue”). Name of the occasional magazine of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg / The Welsh Language Society. Formerly a monthly called Tafod y Ddraig (“the dragon’s tongue”)

Y Tafod, Eisteddfod 2005. Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg.
(delw 0298)
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tafod a rhigol

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tafod a rhych

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tafod drwg

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tafod brwnt

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tafodgwlwm

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tafodi

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tafodiaith, tafodieithoedd <ta-VOD-yaith, -yeth, ta-vod-YEITH-oidh, -odh>  [taˡvɔdjaɪθ, -jɛθ, tavɔdˡjəɪθɔɪð, -ɔð]  (feminine noun)
1
dialect (“tongue + language”)
y dafodiaith = the dialect

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tafodieithol

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tafodieithydd

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tafodig

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tafodleferydd

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tafodog

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tafod teg

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tafod teg a â trwy'r byd

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tafod y ddraig <TAA-vod ə DHRAIG>  [ˡtɑˑvɔd ə ˡðraɪg]
1
the Welsh language

2
symbol of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymráeg

3
Tafod y Ddraig = former name of the monthly magazine of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymráeg. Now called Y Tafod

ETYMOLOGY: (the) tongue (of) the dragon, dragon’s tongue’ (tafod = tongue) + soft mutation + (draig = dragon)

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tafod y fuwch <TAA-vod ə VIUKH>  [ˡtɑˑvɔd ə ˡvɪʊx] masculine noun
1
Borago officinalis, borage

ETYMOLOGY: (the) tongue (of) the cow, cow’s tongue’ (tafod = tongue) + (y definite article) + soft mutation + (buwch = cow)

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tafod yr hydd <TAA-vod ər HIIDH>  [ˡtɑˑvɔd ər ˡhiːð]  masculine noun
1
Phyllitis scolopendrium hart’s tongue

ETYMOLOGY: (the) tongue (of) the hart, hart’s tongue’ (tafod = tongue) + (yr definite article) + (hydd = hart)

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tafod yr wydd <TAA-vod ər UIDH>  [ˡtɑˑvɔd ər ˡʊɪð] masculine noun
1
Achillea ptarmica; sneezewort

ETYMOLOGY: (the) tongue (of) the goose, goose’s tongue’ (tafod = tongue) + (y definite article) + soft mutation + (hydd = goose)

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tafod yr ych <TAA-vod ər IIKH>  [ˡtɑˑvɔd ər ˡiːx]  masculine noun
1
Borago officinalis, borage

ETYMOLOGY: the) tongue (of) the ox, ox’s tongue’ (tafod = tongue) + (buwch = ox)

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tafol <TAA-vol>  [ˡtɑˑvɔl]  feminine noun

PLURAL tafolau <ta-VOO-lai, -lai, -e>  [taˡvoˑlaɪ, -ɛ]
South Wales
1
balance, scales

ETYMOLOGY: British < Latin tabula

The cognate word in Breton is taol (= table)

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tafolen <ta-VOO-len>  [taˡvoˑlɛn] feminine noun
PLURAL tafol <TAA-vol>  [ˡtɑˑvɔl]
1
Rumex conglomeratus dock plant

ETYMOLOGY: British*taual (if not from Latin tabula)
(tafol = dock plants, dock leaves) + (-en singulative suffix)
From the same British root: Cornish tavolenn (= dock plant), Breton teolenn (= dock plant)

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tafoli <ta-VOO-li>  [taˡvoˑlɪ] verb
South Wales
1
weigh
2
weigh up, assess, judge

ETYMOLOGY: (tafol = scales) + (-i = suffix)

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tafolog <ta-VOO-log>  [taˡvoˑlɔg] adjective
1
abounding in dock plants

2
(feminine noun) place where dock plants grow
Found in place names and field names

3
Gellidafolog = y gelli dafolog ‘dock-leaf grove’. Name of a farm by Penderyn (county of Rhondda Cynon Taf)
(y = definite article) + soft mutation + (celli = wood, grove) + soft mutation + (tafolog = adjective = full of dock plants)

ETYMOLOGY: (tafol = dock leaves) + (-og suffix)

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Tafolwern <ta-VOL-wern>  [taˡvɔlwɛrn]
1
SH 8902 locality in the county of Powys

ETYMOLOGY: at first sight “marsh with dockplants”
(tafol = dock plants) + soft mutation + (gwern = marsh, wet ground), but in fact from earlier Dywalwern (dywal = ??) + soft mutation + (gwern)

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Tafolwg <tav-OO-lug>  [tavˡoˑlʊg]
1
street in Ffosygerddinen (county of Caerffili) (though in fact misspelt as if two words “Taf Olwg”)

ETYMOLOGY: (= Taf view, place with a view of the river Taf) (Taf = river name) + soft mutation + (golwg = view) .

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tafolen

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tafoli

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tafolog

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Tafolwern

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Tafolwg

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tafotrwg <ta-VOT-rwg>  [taˡvɔtrwg]  adjective
1
foul-mouthed

ETYMOLOGY: (tafod = tongue) + (drwg = bad) > tafod-ddrwg > tafotrwg
(d-dd > t)

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tafotrydd

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Tafwy
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Tafwyl TAAV-uil› [ˡtɑˑvʊɪl]   (f)
1 Welsh language festival in Caer-dydd / Cardiff

Bydd Gŵyl Gymraeg newydd sbon yn digwydd yng Nghaerdydd rhwng 16 – 24 Mehefin 2007.
A brand-new Welsh-language festival will take place in Caer-dydd between 16-24 June 2007.

Bydd ‘Tafwyl’, gŵyl wythnos o hyd, yn cynnig croestoriad o weithgareddau yn y Gymraeg, o chwaraeon a cherddoriaeth i lenyddiaeth a chomedi

‘Tafwyl’, a week-long festival, will offer a cross-section of activities in Welsh. from games to music to literature and comedy.

Menter Iaith Caerdydd, mewn partneriaeth â gwahanol gyrff a chwmnïau, gan gynnwys yr Urdd, Prifysgol Caerdydd, Cyngor Sir Caerdydd, Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin, Radio Cymru, Sain Ffagan sy’n cydlynu’r digwyddiad.

Menter Iaith Caerdydd (“Caerdiff Langaue Venture”), in partnership with different bodies and companies, including Yr Urdd (Welsh League of Youth), Prifysgol Caerdydd (University of Caer-dydd), Cyngor Sir Caerdydd (Caer-dydd County Council), Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin (Welsh-language nursery schools movement), Radio Cymru (Welsh-language radio), Sain Ffagan (Musuem of Welsh Life in Sain Ffagan) are coordinationgthe event.

16-06-2007 Gerfan Menter Caerdydd http://www.mentercaerdydd.org/cymraeg/newyddion.php



(delw 7084)

ETYMOLOGY: “Taf festival”, “festival of the river Taf, of the city on the river Taf – i.e. Caer-dydd / Cardiff”

(Taf river name, the main river in Caer-dydd, and the river name in the name Caer-dydd, from an earlier Caer-dyf – Roman fort by the river Taf) + soft mutation + (gŵyl = festival)

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Tafwys <TAA-vuis>  [ˡtɑˑvʊɪs]  (feminine noun)
1
Thames, river in South-east England (Oxford, London).

A name of proto-Welsh origin.

Compare the two rivers ‘Taf’ <TAAV>  [tɑːv]  in South-east Wales and South-west Wales, and rivers in England with the name ‘Tame’; also the Welsh river names Teifi, Teifiad

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tàg

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tagell <TAA-gelh>  [ˡtɑˑgɛɬ]  (f)
PLURAL tagellau, tegyll <ta-GE-lhe,-TE-gilh>  [taˡgeˑɬaɪ, -ɛ, ˡteˑgɪɬ]
1 (fish) gill 

2 (mushroom) gill - spore-producing structure 

3 (animal) dewlap 

4 (person) double chin
tagell ei ên his double chin 

5 (bird) crop, wattle; = part of oesophagus which forms a pouch for storing or partially digesting
6 (slang) person’s throat, windpipe

cydio yn nhagell rhywun nes ei fod yn farw throttle someone to death (“get hold of somebody’s windpipe until he dies”)

gwlychu'r dagell wet one's whistle = have a drink (lit: wet one's throat)

7 (Caerfyrddin) snare 

ETYMOLOGY: (tag-) + (-ell diminutive suffix); 
tag- from the verb tagu (= to choke, to throttle, to strangle)

Breton: tagell (= trap; collar);
Cornish: - possibly this is the tag- which occurs in the place name Tintagel

NOTE: (Maldwyn) tagiell (palatalised ‘g’)

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tagellog

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tagfa

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taglyd

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taglys <TAG-lis>  [ˡtaglɪs] masculine noun
1
a vine of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia which twines
taglys blewog Calystegia pulchra = Hairy Bindweed
taglys estron Calystegia silvatica = Large Bindweed
taglys mawr Calystegia sepium = Hedge Bindweed
taglys arfor Calystegia soldanella = Sea Bindweed

2
(South Wales) convolvulus arvensis bindweed.
Standard name: Cwlwm y Cythraul (“devil’s knot”)

ETYMOLOGY: (tag- stem of tagu = to strangle) + soft mutation + (llys = plant)

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tagnwy

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tagu

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tagu'r ffynnon yw blingo'r praidd

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tagydd

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ta-hi

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Tahiteg

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Tahiti

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tai <TAI>  [taɪ]  (plural noun)
1
houses; See: = house

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Tai-ar-y-bryn <TAI ar ə BRIN>  [ˡtaɪ ar ə ˡbrɪn]
1
street name in Llanfair ym Muallt (Powys)

ETYMOLOGY: y tai ar y bryn (“the houses on the hill”)
(y = definite article, the) + (tai = houses, plural of = house) + (ar = on) + (y = definite article, the) + (bryn = hill)

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Tai-bach tai BAAKH>  [ə taɪ ˡbɑːx]

1
y Tai-bach SS7788 locality in the county of Castell-nedd ac Aberafan
Known in surrounding districts as Tai-bach Aberafan (colloquially Tai-bach ’Brafan) “(the place called) Tai-bach (which is in) Aberafan”

y Tai-bach (“the cottages, the little houses”) was the name given to four small thatched cottages which at one time stood at the end of Heol y Dŵr (on English maps as “Water Street”) on the north-west side of the River Afan, in Aberafan

Dyffryn y Tai-bach the Tai-bach valley

2
y Tai-bach locality in Pentre-bach (county of Merthyrtudful)

ETYMOLOGY: the little houses (y = the) + (tai = houses, plural of = house) + (bach = small, little)

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ta-i byth o'r fan 'ma

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tai cefngefn

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tai cysgodol

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tai haf

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taid, teidiau <TAID, TEID-yai, -yai, -e>  [taɪd, ˡtəɪdjaɪ, -ɛ]  (masculine noun)
1
(North Wales) grandfather

Often used in English when talking of one’s grandfather

“My Taid Evan Williams was brother to Abel Williams who ran the Old Bakery”

2 Diminutive form: teida <TEI-da› [ˡtəɪda]  granddad

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Y Taiduon <tai DII-on>  [taɪ ˡdiˑɔn]
1
place name
Name of a Calvist Methodist chapel in Clynnog Fawr “Capel Tai Duon” (M.C. / Methodistiaid Calfinaidd)

ETYMOLOGY: y tai duon “(the) black houses”
(y definite article) + (tai = houses, plural of = house) + (duon = black, plural of du = black)

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tail <TAIL>  [taɪl]  (masculine noun)
1
dung
2
(Bible) tail dom dyn human excrement

Eseciel  4:12 Ac fel teisen haidd y bwytei ef; ti a’i cresi hi hefyd wrth dail tom dyn, yn eu gŵydd hwynt.
Ezekiel 4:12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

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tailwr

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tai maas

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 (y) Tainewydd

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tair <TAIR>  [taɪr]  (masculine noun)
1
three (feminine form)

2
tair blwydd oed
<tair bluidh OIS>  [taɪr blʊɪð ˡɔɪd]  (phrase) three years old

3
tair ceiniog
<tair KEIN-yog>  [taɪr ˡkəɪnjɔg]  (phrase) three pence (or the now more or less obsolete form thruppence, referring to a coin in circulation until 1971)

4 There is no mutation of the feminine forms of numerals tair and pedair after the definite article y
Thus y tair (not *y dair), y pedair (not *y bedair)
Elen Benfelen a'r Tair Arth Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Place-name examples:

Y
Tair Carreg the three stones, on the hill between the towns of Merthyrtudful and Rhymni
Llan-y-tair-mair ‹ lhan-ə-tair-MAIR feminine noun
1
SS4688 locality in the county of Abertawe. English name: Knelston [NEL-stən]

http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SS4688 map
ETYMOLOGY: (the) church (of) the three Marys (llan = church) + (y definite article) + (tair = three, feminine form of tri = three) + (Mair = Mary)

The three Marys are
(1) Mary, the mother of Christ,
(2) Mary Magdalen and
(3) Mary of Cleophas

They are depicted in illustrations in the Middle Ages standing at the foot of the cross as witnesses of the Crucifixion of Christ.

(delw 7460)
 

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tair
1
In place names this may be either
...a/ ‘tair’ = three, or
..b/ ‘tai + yr’ (‘houses’ + the definite article), though this is properly written with an apostrophe, tai’r, rather than tair

(1) Thus Taironenn (ST0374) a farm in Llantriddyd, on the road from Caer-dydd to Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr, is “tair onnen” the three elm trees;

(2) but Tai’rysgol SS6997 locality in the county of Castell-nedd ac Aberafan is (tai + yr + ysgol = the houses by the school), not Tairysgol ‘three schools’

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tair blynedd

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Tai'r-bwl

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tair congl

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Tai’r-gwaith <tair GWAITH>  [taɪr ˡgwaɪθ]
1
locality in the valley of the Rhondda (county of Rhondda-Cynon-Taf)
2
village SN7112 east of Gwauncaegurwen (county of Castell-nedd ac Aberafan)

ETYMOLOGY: “(the) houses (of) the works / the mine / the foundry / the factory, etc”, houses next to a mine, houses belonging to a mineowner
(tai = houses, plural of ty = house) + (yr = the) + (gwaith = work / workings / mine / foundry / factory). After a preceding vowel, yr becomes ‘r. A final stressed monosyllable is preceded by a hyphen in the spelling of habitative place names

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(y) Tair Gwyl Arbennig

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Tairhelygen

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Tairheol

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tairieithog

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Tai'r-lôn

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tair neu bedair o

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tair nos, oes llydrew

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Taironnen <tair O-nen>  [taɪr ˡɔnɛn]
1
(ST0374) a farm in Llantriddyd, on the road from Caer-dydd to Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr
2
(SN6503) locality by Felindre (county of Abertawe)

ETYMOLOGY: y tair onnen = the three elms
(y = the) + (tair, feminine form of tri = three) + (onnen = elm tree)

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Tai’rysgol <tair Ə-skol>  [taɪr ˡəskɔl]
1
SS6997 locality in the county of Castell-nedd ac Aberafan

ETYMOLOGY: “tai’r ysgol” (the) houses (by) the school
(tai = houses, plural of ty = house) + (yr = the) + (ysgol = school)

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Taisiriol <tai-SIR-yol>  [taɪˡsɪrjɔl]
1 street name in Ffosygerddinen (Caerffili) (“cheerful houses / merry houses”) (spelt as “Tai Siriol”)

ETYMOLOGY: “y tai siriol” the pleasant houses / merry houses
(y = definite article) + (tai = houses, plural of = house) + (siriol = happy / merry / cheerful / pleasant)
Settlement names are written together as one word, hence Tai Siriol > Taisiriol

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Tair Rhiain Ardderchog

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Tairysgol

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Taisiriol

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tai tafarnau

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taith, teithiau <TAITH, TEITH-yai, -yai, -e>  [ˡtaɪθ, ˡtəɪθjaɪ, -ɛ]  (feminine noun)
1
trip, journey
y daith = the journey

2 pen y daith <pen ə DAITH>  [pɛn ə ˡdaɪθ]  destination, journey’s end

3 difrod ar y daith damage in transit

4 Mae cryn daith o’n blaenau We have a long way to go

5 ar fy nhaith tua Chymru on my way to Wales (“on my journey towards Wales”)

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taith feiciau

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taith gar

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taith gerdded

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taith gyfnewid

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taith gyswllt

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taith i lawr

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taith noddedig

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tal <TAL>  [tal]  (adjective)
1
tall (person, building)

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tâl, taliadau <TAAL, tal-YAA-dai, -dai, -e>  [tɑːl, talˡjɑˑdaɪ, -ɛ]  (masculine noun)
1
payment

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tâl <TAAL>  [tɑːl]  (masculine noun)
1
front, top, end

2
talar headland in a field, cross ridge at the end of a ploughed field; edge of a field where the plough turns, and which is ploughed in turn when the whole field has been ploughed (Scotland: headrig = headland in ploughed field).
(tâl = top, end, furthest part, highest part) + (âr = ploughed land)
See separate entry below.


3 In names with tâl as a first element with only a minor stress (the final element bears the main stress) the vowel becomes short â > a.

Tal-y-bont, Tal-y-fan, Talycopa, Tal-y-garn

A similar phenomenon occurs with dôl (river meadow) in Dolgellau, though the long vowel is retained in Dôl-y-bont, Dôl-y-cae, Dôl-goch etc

Tal-y-bont street name in Dolgellau
(Gwynedd); district of Llanrug (Gwynedd); village in Ceredigion, etc. (“place facing the bridge”)

Tal-y-cae street name in Tre-garth, Bangor
(Gwynedd) (“place facing the field”)

Tal-y-coed street name in Hendy
(Abertawe) (“place facing the wood”)

Tal-y-fan street name in Glanconwy
(Dinbych) (“place facing the peak”)

Tai Talyrafon street name in Dolgellau
(Gwynedd) (“houses at Talyrafon”; = place facing the river”)

4 As a prefix in some place names, meaning ‘place facing, place looking onto, place overlooking, place opposite’)

Talafon place opposite the river
(afon = river)

Taldwyn place opposite the hill
(twyn = hill)

Taldwyn
place opposite the peak
(ban = peak)

Taleifion place looking towards Eifion
(that is, a poetic form for the district of Eifionydd; cf Meirion for Meirionydd). Street name in Llanystumdwy. 

Talfryn place opposite the hill
(bryn = hill)

Talgarreg
place opposite the rock
(carreg = stone, rock)

Talgarth place opposite the hill
(garth = hill) (Talarth or Taliarth would be expected; maybe that earlier the form was *talgharth, with soft mutation g > gh, and subsequently the mutation was undone; or it is tâl-gárth with a transfer of the accent from the final syllable)

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Talacharn <ta-LAA-kharn>  [taˡlɑˑxarn]  (feminine noun) (History)
1
a cwmwd (neighbourhood) in the district of Gwarthaf

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Talach-ddu

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Talacre

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taladwy

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Talafon <tal-AA-von>  [talˡɑˑvɔn]
1
house name 

farm below Yr Eifl hill, near Llangybi (Gwynedd)
name of a grocery store in Aber-soch (Gwynedd)
street name in Llanberis (Conwy)
house name in Porthaethwy (Gwynedd)
house name in Beddgelert
house name in Llangwnnadl (Gwynedd)
house name in Caerffili
house name in Llanerfyl (Powys)
house name in Tudweiliog (Gwynedd)
house name in Pant-y-ffridd (Powys)
street name in Cricieth (Gwynedd)

ETYMOLOGY: “place facing the river” (tâl = front) + (afon = river)

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talai

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talaith, taleithiau <TA-laith, -leth, ta-LEITH-yai, -yai, -e>  [ˡtalaɪθ, -ɛθ , taˡləɪθjaɪ, -ɛ]  (feminine noun)
1
province
y dalaith = the province

2
state
yr Unol Daleithiau = The United States (sometimes also: y Taleithiau Unedig)
Taleithiau Unedig América <ta-LEITH-yai, -ye, i-NEE-dig a-ME-ri-ka>  [taˡləɪθjaɪ, -ɛ, ɪˡneˑdɪg aˡmɛrɪka]  United States of America

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Talaith yr Ymerodraeth

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talar <TAA-lar>  [ˡtɑˑlar] feminine noun
PLURAL talarau
<ta-LAA-rai, -rai, -e>  [taˡlɑˑraɪ, -ɛ]

1
headland in a field, cross ridge at the end of a ploughed field; edge of a field where the plough turns, and which is ploughed in turn when the whole field has been ploughed (Scotland: headrig = headland in ploughed field)
y dalar = the headland

2
dod i ben y dalar, dod i ben talar draw to an end, be nearly completed

3
tynnu at ben talar be nearly completed
(“draw to (the) end (of the) headland”)

4
cyrraedd pen talar reach one’s destination

5
house names and street names

Street names:
..1/ Pendalar = pen y dalar (“(the) end (of) the cross-ridge”)
….a/ Llanfair Fechan (county of Conwy)

..2 Talar-deg (“fair headland”) (“Talar Deg”)
Llanilar (county of Ceredigion)

..3 Dalar-las = y dalar las (“green headland”) (“Dalar Las”)
….a/ Glanconwy, Baecolwyn (county of Conwy)
….b/ Llanfachreth, Dolgellau (county of Gwynedd)

..4 Y Dalar (“the headland”)
….a/ Machynlleth (county of Powys)

..5 Dalar-wen = y dlar wen (“(the) white headland”)
….a/ Dinbych

6 (as a masculine noun) Y Talar street name in Tregynwr (county of Caerfyrddin)


ETYMOLOGY: (tâl = top, furthest part, highest part) + (âr = ploughed land)

In the other British languages:
Cornish talar (= headland in a field),
Breton talar (= headland in a field), war e dalaroù (“on his cross-ridges” = be in his death throes), ober e dalaroù (“work his cross-ridges” = be in his death throes)

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talar a thir

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Talardd

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Talar-deg TAA-lar DEEG [ˡtɑˑlar ˡdeːg]
1
street name in Llanilar (county of Ceredigion) (“Talar Deg”)

ETYMOLOGY: (“fair headland / cross-ridge (in a ploughed field)
(talar = cross-ridge) + soft mutation + (teg = fair)

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tâl ar law

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talaru

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Talbenni

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talbont

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tâl bonws

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tâl cadw

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talcen, talcennau / talcenni <TAL-ken, tal-KE-nai, -ne, -ni>  [ˡtalkɛn, talˡkɛnaɪ, talˡkɛnɛ, talˡkɛnɪ] (masculine noun)
1
forehead

2 mor llithrig â thalcen iâr as slippery as an eel “as slippery as the forehead of a hen”

3 moeli ar eich talcen go bald at the front

4 mor llithrig â thalcen iâr as slippery as an eel “as slippery as the forehead of a hen”
mor wastad â thalcen iâr as flat as a pancake (“as flat as (the) forehead (of a) hen”)

5 taro yn eich talcen quash, knock for six (“hit in your forehesad”)
Tarawyd y syniad y ei dalcen The idea was quashed

6 talcen slip receding forehead (slip = sloping)

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talcen caled

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talcendo

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talcen glo

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talcen iâr

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talcen slip

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talcenwyn

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talch

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Tal Clegyr

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tâl cofrestru

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taldra <TAL-dra>  [ˡtaldra] (masculine noun)
1
tallness
2
dyn dwylath o daldra a man six foot tall (“two yards of tallness”)

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taleb

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taledig

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taledigaeth

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taleithiau

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Taleithiau Canolog yr Iwerydd

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Taleithiau'r Môr Tawel

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Taleithiau Unedig

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taleithiol

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talent, talentau <TAA-lent, ta-LEN-tai, -e>  [ˡtaˑlɛnt, taˡlɛntaɪ, -ɛ] (feminine noun)
1
talent, skill, ability, gift
y dalent = the talent

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talent

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talentog <ta-LEN-tog>  [taˡlɛntɔg] adjective
1
talented
cawr o Gymro talentog a diymhongar
a giant of a talented and unassuming Welshman

ETYMOLOGY: (talent = talent) + (-og, adjective for forming adjectives)

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taler

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Taleithiau Unedig América

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Talerddig

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talfeistr <TAL-vei-stir>  [ˡtalvəɪstɪr] masculine noun
PLURAL talfeistri <tal-VEI-stri>  [talˡvəɪstrɪ]
1
paymaster = a person in charge of paying wages in an administration or a business
Y Tâl-feistr Cyffredinol The Paymaster General = an official in the English government who originally was head of the department giving payments to other government departments, but who nowadays can in fact have any special responsibility which a Prime Minister gives him

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talfrig

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talfur

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talfyredig

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talfyriad

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talfyrru

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Talgarreg

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Talgarth <TAL-garth>  [ˡtalgarθ] (feminine noun)
1
village in South-east Wales

2 a kántrev / cantref in the medieval period
3 a kúmmud / cwmwd within the kántrev

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tâl gorgadw

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talgrib <TAL-grib>  [ˡtalgrɪb] masculine noun
1 (poetry) high ridge 

ETYMOLOGY: (tal = tall) + soft mutation + ( crib = ridge)
In the north, crib is masculine (y crib); in the south it is feminine (y grib)

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talgron

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talgrwn

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talgryf

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talgrynnu

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Talhaearn <tal-HEI-arn>  [talˡhəɪarn]

1
obsolete male name (tâl + haearn, “brow (of) iron”)

2 Talhaiarn (1810-1869) Richard Parry, poet, born in Llanfair Talhaearn (county of Dinbych),
(Talhaiarn, with an ‘i’, is an incorrect spelling formerly in use in the 1800s)
See Hen Arweinwyr Eisteddfodau / Daniel Williams / Llyfrau Pawb 12 / 1944

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tali

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taliad, taliadau <TAL-yad, tal-YAA-dai, -e>  [ˡtaljad, talˡjɑˑdaɪ, -ɛ] (masculine noun)
1
payment
2
taliad unwaith ag am byth (“payment once and for ever”) a premium payment, a one-off payment

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taliad ernes

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Taliesin

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tali-ho!

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talm <TALM>  [talm]
1
(colloquially as talwm) while, period
Ers talwm... Once upon a time (conventional phrase for beginning a fairy tale, etc)
(Also: Unwaith..., Un tro..., Gynt..., Ers llawer dydd..., Ryw dro...”)

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talmu

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talmwd

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tâl mynediad

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talo

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talog

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talog <TAA-log>  [ˡtɑˑlɔg]
1
in place names, usually from halog (= filthy, polluted) after a word with final -d

..1/ Rhydtalog As it stands it would seem to be “(the) ford (of) Talog”, “Talog’s ford” (Talog being a plausible forename, though not in fact found). However the name is really
"filthy ford, muddy ford” (rhyd = ford) + (halog = filthy, dirty, muddy) > Rhydhalog >  Rhytalog (d+h > t) > “Rhyd Talog”,  a reforming of the name as if  “(the) ford (of) Talog”,
..a/ There is a Rhydhalog / Rhytalog SJ2354 sou8th-west of Treuddyn in Sir y Fflint (Rhydtalog on the Ordnance Survey map)
http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SJ2354 map

..b/ There is also a Rhydhalog / Rhytalog ST0279 south-west of Brynsadler,  Rhondda Cynon Taf, South-east Wales (Rhydhalog on the Ordnance Survey map)

http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/ST0279 map

..2/ Coedtalog SJ0511 a farm by Afon Banwy north-east of Llanerfyl in the district of Maldwyn in the county of Powys.
As it stands it would seem to be “(the) wood (of) Talog”, “Talog’s wood” (Talog being a plausible forename, though not in fact found). However the name is really
"filthy wood, muddy wood” (coed = wood) + (halog = filthy, dirty, muddy) > Coedhalog >  Coetalog (d+h > t) > “Coed Talog”,  a reforming of the name as if  “(the) wood (of) Talog”,

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/315409 map

..3/ See Talwg

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talp

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talpiog

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talpswm

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Talrych

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Tal-sarn


SN7726 Caerfyr
ddin 

SN5456 Ceredigion

SH2729 Gwynedd

SO1623 Powys

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Talsarnau
<tal-SARN-ai, -e>  [talˡsarnaɪ, -ɛ]
SH6135 Gwynedd

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talsyth

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talu <TAA-li>  [ˡtɑˑlɪ] (verb)
1
pay
- talu a chario <TAA-li a KHAR-yo>  [ˡtɑˑlɪ a ˡxarjɔ]  (phrase) cash and carry
- talu sylw i <ta-li SI-lu i>  [talɪ ˡsɪlʊ ɪ] (verb) pay attention to
- talu’r bil <taa-lir BIL>  [tɑˑlɪr ˡbɪl] (phrase) pay the bill
talu ar law
pay cash (“pay on hand”)
talu ag arian parod pagar en efectiu (“pay with ready money”)

2
talu dros bawb
to pay for everybody

3 talu crocbris am rywbeth
pay through the nose for something, pay the earth for something (“pay a hanging-price for something”)

4
fe dâl hysbysebu it pays to advertise

5
talu’r echwyn adref give tit for tat (“pay the loan home”)

6 dwyn yr hen i dalu’r newydd to rob Peter to pay Paul (“steal the old to pay for the new”)
dwyn o’r naill law i dalu’r llall to rob Peter to pay Paul (“steal from one hand he to pay the other”)

7
talu’r hen a dwyn y newydd to rob Peter to pay Paul (“pay for the old thing and steal the new thing”)

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talu ag arian parod

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talu ar ei ganfed

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talu ar law

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talu cast am gast

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talu clod i

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talu crocbris am

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talu cymwynas yn ei hôl

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talu dyled

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talu fesul bach

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talu eich ffordd

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talu + gadael mynd

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talu gan bwyll bach

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talu gwrogaeth i

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talu hen ddyled

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talu i

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talu iawn

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talu + i mewn

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talu yn eich coin ei hun

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talu pwython

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talu'r bìl

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talu'r cwbl

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talu'r ffordd

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talu rhag blaen

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talu'r hen a dwyn y newydd

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talu rhent am

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talu'r pwyth

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talu'r pwyth yn ôl

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talu'r hen chwech yn ôl

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talu'r pwyth yn ôl

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talu sylw

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talu teyrnged i

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talu + troi ymáith

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talu yn ddrud

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talu yn ei chwein ei hun

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talu yn hallt am

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talu yn ôl

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talu yn rhy ddrud am ei ddysg

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talu yn rhy ddrud am ei grwth

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Talweunydd

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Talwg <TAA-lug>  [ˡtɑˑlʊg]
1
In Y Barri (county of Bro Morgannwg) there is a stream called Nant Talwg. The stream name is taken from the name of a ford.

Talwg

< Rytalwg (Rhy’ Talwg)


< Rytalog (Rhy’ Talog)

< Ryd Halog (Rhyd Halog) (= dirty ford / muddy ford)

There is devoicing of d before h, and the h is lost, the rule being (d + h) > (t)

..a/ The name occurs in the name of a street “Nant Talwg Way“, which would be in Welsh Heol Nant Talwg or simply Nant Talwg / Nant-talwg

..b/ Coed Cwm Talwg name of a wood here

..c/ Cwm Talwg name of a public house here  

NOTE: The change -og > -wg in the south-west is also to be seen in the place names

...a/  Llangatwg > Llangadog (also with a change typical of the south-east - d as the initial consonant of the final syllable > t

..b/ Morgannwg

..c/ Gwynllŵg

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talwm <TA-lum>  [ˡtalʊm]
1
while, period
See: talm

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talwrn
<TAA-lurn>  [ˡtɑˑlʊrn] masculine noun
PLURAL talyrnau
<ta-LƏR-nai, -e>  [taˡlərnaɪ, -ɛ]
1
grassland, meadow

2
in street names
..a/ “Talwrn Road” Coed-poeth (county of Wrecsam) (this would be Ffordd yTalwrn in Welsh)
..b/ “Talwrn Road” Llangefni (county of Ynys Môn) (this would be Ffordd yTalwrn in Welsh)
..c/ “Talwrn Road” Pentraeth (county of Ynys Môn) (this would be Ffordd yTalwrn in Welsh)

3
threshing floor

4
cockpit
talwrn ceiliogod cockpit

5
talwrn y beirdd competition amongst poets

ETYMOLOGY: ??
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Y Talwrn <ə TAA-lurn>  [ə ˡtɑˑlʊrn]
1
(SJ2948) locality in Wrecsam

http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SJ2948

2 (SJ3847) locality in Wrecsam

http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SJ3847

3
(SH4877) locality in the county of Ynys Môn
Eisteddfod Gadeiriol y Talwrn, Ynys Môn The chair eisteddfod of Y Talwrn in the island of Môn

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/515887

ETYMOLOGY: “the meadow”, “the open land” (y = the) + (talwrn = meadow)

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talwyneb <tal-UI-neb>  [talˡʊɪnɛb] masculine noun
PLURAL talwynebau <tal-ui-NEE-bai, -e>  [talʊɪˡneˑbaɪ, -ɛ]
1 façade 

ETYMOLOGY: “front face” (tâl = front) + (wyneb = face)

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Talybolion <tal-ə-BOL-yon>  [taləˡbɔljɔn] (feminine noun)
1
(History) neighbourhood in Cemais (Gwynedd Uwch Conwy)

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Tal-y-bont <tal-ə-BONT>  [taləˡbɔnt] (feminine noun)
1
place-name - place facing the bridge head, bridge end

..a/ Tal-y-bont SJ2408

Village on the English side of the border by Y Trallwng (Welshpool). English name: Buttington


(delw 7272)

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/676661

2
Pont Tal-y-bont locality in the county of Gwynedd (near Bangor) (“the bridge at the olace called Tal-y-bont”)
English name: Gipsy Corner

See tâl


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Tal-y-bont ar Wysg

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Tal-y-cae

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Tal-y-cafn

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Tal-y-coed

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Talycopa <tal-ə-KO-pa>  [taləˡkɔpa]
1 farm, north of Pentre-dŵr, Llansamlet (county of Abertawe)
Nearby there is Heol Dalycopa (“Heol Dalycopa”) and “Talycopa Court” (which would be Cwrt Talycopa in Welsh)

ETYMOLOGY: “place facing the peak” (tâl = forehead; place facing) + (y = the) + (copa = peak)
Copa is generally feminine in Welsh (y gopa) but it is a masculine noun in some areas (y copa).  See tâl

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Tal-y-fan <tal-ə-VAN>  [taləˡvan] (feminine noun)
1
place-name “place facing the brow of the hill”
See tâl
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Tal-y-garn <tal-ə-GARN>  [taləˡgarn] feminine noun
1
SH 0380 mansion south of the village of Pont-y-clun (county of Rhondda Cynon Taf)

ETYMOLOGY: (tâl = forehead; place facing) + (y = the) + soft mutation + (carn = cairn, pile of stones)
See tâl

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Tal y Glannau

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Talyllychau

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Tal-y-llyn

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Tal y Mignedd

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tâl ymwared

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Tal-y-sarn


SH4853 Gwyned
d

See also Tal-sarn

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Tal-y-waun

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Tal-y-wern

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Talyweunydd

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tam

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tamaid, tameidiau <TA-maid, -med, ta-MEID-yai, -e>  [ˡtamaɪd, -ɛd,taˡməɪdjaɪ, -ɛ] (masculine noun)
1
piece

2 ennill eich tamaid
<E-nilh əkh TA-maid, -med>  [ˡɛnɪɬ əx ˡtamaɪd, -ɛd] (verb) earn one’s living

3 tamaid y cythraul (Succisa pratensis) devil's bit scabious

4 bod yn gythraul am eich tamaid be sex mad (“be a devil for your bit”)

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tamaid bach

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tamaid bach o beth fel yna

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tamaid gormod

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tamaid i aros pryd <TA-maid, -med, i AA-ros PRIID>  [ˡtamaɪd, -ɛd ɪ ˡɑˑrɔs ˡpriː d] masculine noun
PLURAL tameidiau i aros pryd <ta-MEID-yai, -e, i AA-ros PRIID>  [taˡməɪdjaɪ, -ɛ ɪ ˡɑˑrɔs ˡpriː d]
1
snack (“a portion to await a meal”)
cael tamaid i aros pryd
, have a snack
cael tamaid have a snack

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tamaid tröwr <TA-mai, -med, TROO-ur>  [ˡtamaɪd, -ɛd, ˡtroˑʊr] masculine noun
PLURAL tameidiau tröwr  <ta-MEID-yai, -e, TROO-ur>  [taˡməɪdjaɪ, -ɛ, ˡtroˑʊr]
1
ploughman’s lunch - a snack of bread, cheese and pickled onions served in a pub to accompany a glass of beer

ETYMOLOGY: (“portion (of) (a) ploughman”) adaptation of English ‘ploughman’s lunch’

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Tamar

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támarisg

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tambed

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tambwrîn

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tambwrinydd

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tamed

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tameidiach

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tameidiau

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tameidiog

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tameidyn

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tamp

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tampan

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tampio

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tampo

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tampon

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tamprwydd <TAM-pruidh>  [ˡtamprʊɪð] (masculine noun)
1
dampness

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tan <TAN>  [tan] (preposition)
1
until

tan dri o’r gloch until three o’ clock

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tan-

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tân, tanau <TAAN, TAA-nai, -e>  [tɑːn, ˡtɑˑnaɪ, -ɛ] (masculine noun)
1
fire

allanfa dân, alllanféydd tân fire exit (sometimes seen on signs as “allanfa tân”, but this is incorrect)
brigâd dân fire brigade
coed tân <koid TAAN>  [kɔɪd ˡtɑːn] firewood
lle tân <lhee TAAN>  [ɬeː ˡtɑːn] fireplace
shilff-ben-tân <shilf ben TAAN>  [ʃɪlf bɛn ˡtɑːn] mantelpiece
tân glas <taan GLAAS>  [tɑːn ˡglɑːs] flare

2
A losgodd ei fysedd a ochel y tân Once bitten twice shy (“the person who burnt his fingers is the person who avoids the fire”)

3
mwy o fwg nag o dân more noise than substance, a lot of talk and little action (“more of smoke than of fire”)

4
strimyn atal tân firebreak (“strip (of) stopping fire”)

5
tân siafins (See separate entry)

6
gefel dân fire tongs
(gefel = tongs) + soft mutation + (tân = fire)

7 tân a brwmstan fire and brimstone

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Tanad

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tanadeiledd

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tan-amcanu

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tân ar groen

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tanategu

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tân bach diniwed

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tanbaid

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tanbeidio

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tanbeidrwydd

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tân-belen

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tân-beleniad

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tanboblogaeth

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tanborthwr

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tanc, tanciau <TANGK, TANGK-yai, -e>  [taŋk, ˡtaŋkjaɪ, -ɛ] (masculine noun)
1
tank (petrol tank, etc)
tanc carthion septic tank 

2 tank = military vehicle

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tanc02

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tanc d#r

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tancer, tanceri <TANG-ker, tang-KEE-ri>  [ˡtaŋkɛr, taŋˡkeˑrɪ] (masculine noun)
1
tanker (lorry)

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tanchwa

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tanciaid

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tancio

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tanc storio

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tanddaearol

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tancwr

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tanddatblygidad

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tanddatblygiedig

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tanddwr

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tan ddydd Sul Pys

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tan eich crwys

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tanellu

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taenellwr

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tân ellyll

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tanen

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tanen wyllt

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tanerdy <ta-NER-di>  [taˡnɛrdɪ] masculine noun
PLURAL tanerdai <ta-NER-dai>  [taˡnɛrdaɪ]
1
tannery

ETYMOLOGY: (taner = tanner) + soft mutation + (-ty = house, building)

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(y) Tanerdy

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tan fawd

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tanffordd

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tanfor

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tan gabl

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tan gamp

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tan ganu

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tangiad

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tan°gl

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tan gladd

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tân glas

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tan glo

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tanglo

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tan°gloddio

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Tan°glwst

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tangnefedd <tang-NEE-vedh>  [taŋˡneˑvɛð] (masculine noun)
1
peace

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tangnefeddu

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tangnefeddus

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tangnefeddwr <tang-ne-VEE-dhur>  [taŋnɛˡveˑðʊr] masculine noun
PLURAL tangnefeddwyr <tang-ne-VEDH-wir>  [taŋnɛˡvɛðwɪr]
1
Bíblia peacemaker = conciliator, person who reconciles enemies
Mathew 5:9

Gwyn eu byd y tangnefeddwyr canys hwy a elwir yn blant i Dduw
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the Children of God

ETYMOLOGY: (tangnefedd = peace) + (-wr = agent suffix, ‘man’)

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tan°go

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tan grwys

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tan gwmwl

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tangyflogaeth

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tân gwidw

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tan gwmwl

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tan gwyllt

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tan gwyn

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Tangwystl

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ta-nhw

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tani

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ta-ni

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taniad <TAN-yad>  [ˡtanjad] masculine noun
PLURAL taniadau <tan-YAA-dai, -e>  [tanˡjɑˑdaɪ, -ɛ]
1
ignition

2
firing

3
firing of a gun
taniad reiffl rifle shot
o fewn taniad reiffl within rifle shot

4
detonation

5
explosion

6
(South-east) tanad pit explosion

Mae’n fachan trwy’r tanad He’s one of the best (“he is a man through the explosion”, i.e. who will rescue you in a mine disaster)

ETYMOLOGY: (tan- stem of tanio = to fire, to detonate) + (-i-ad abstract noun-forming suffix)

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taniadur

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taniadwy

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tân iddw

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tanig

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tan-i marw

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tanin

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tanio <TAN-yo>  [ˡtanjɔ] verb
1
fire (a shot)
tanio ergyd fire a shot
Taniodd ddwy ergyd ac arhosodd
heb danio ergyd without a shot being fired, without firing a shot
Taniodd ddwy ergyd ac arhosodd He fired two shots and waited

2
fire (a gun)
tanio dryll ar (rywun) = fire a gun at (someone)
cael ei danio (firearm) be fired
Clywais i wn yn cael ei danio I heard a gun being fired
gosod (reiffl) mewn ystum tanio position a rifle ready for firing, bring a rifle to the firing position

3
(pibell = pipe) light
Taniodd ei bibell a syllodd ar y môr
He lit his pipe and gazed at the sea

4 light, strike = (match) cause to flame through friction
tanio matshen strike a match
Taniodd fatshen a'i fflicio dros y stafell
He lit a match and flicked it across the room

5
start (the engine of a vehicle)
Wyddwn i ddim sut oedd tanio’r tractor
I didn’t know how to start the tractor

6 let off, set off = cause to operate
Pwy sy wedi tanio’r diffoddydd?
Who let off the fire extinguisher?

7 fire (imagination) = inspire
llyfrau storïau i danio dychymyg plant
story books to fire children’s imagination
tanio brwdfrydedd rhywun fire somebody’s curiosity

8 fill with emotion, fire the enthusiasm of, fire with passion
Yn yr adeilad hwn yn Heol y Wig, Ewenni byddai Edward Matthews yn tanio’i gynulleidfa chweugain mlynedd yn ôl
In this building in Heol y Wig (“road leading to Wig”), (in the village of) Ewenni, Edward Matthews would fire his audience (with passion) 120 years ago

9 maes tanio shooting range

10 peiriant mewndanio, motor tanio mewnol internal combustion engine

11 (masculine noun) fire = shooting; causing to explode
tanio tanllyd tracer fire = firing of tracer bullets (visible in flight because of burning chemicals which give off light and smoke) (“fiery shooting”)

ETYMOLOGY: (tân = fire) + (-io suffix for forming verbs)

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tanio ar bob silindr

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tanist

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taniwr

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taniwr rocedi

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tanjerîn

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tanlinellu

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tân lladd mochyn

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Tan-llan

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tanlli

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tanlliw

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tanllwyth

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tanllwyth o dân

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tanllyd

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tân llym o dan y llymru
tân mall wna'r uwd yn well

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tanlwybr

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tanlys

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tannau

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tannu

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tannws

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tanod

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tanodd

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tan oed

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 (y) Tân Poeth

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tân segur

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tanseiliad

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tanseilio

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tanseiliwr

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tân siafins <taan SHAA-vins>  [tɑːn ˡʃɑˑvɪns] (masculine noun)
1
fire of wood shavings, which burns quickly and disappears quickly; blaze followed by nothing

2
flash in the pan = something which is apparently a success but which turns out to be short-lived; partial success at first, later failure; short-lived pehenomenon, short-lived enthusiasm
Tân siafins fu’r cwbl It was just a flash in the pan

3
tân shafins o ddyn person who does things and says things rashly

ETYMOLOGY: “fire (of) wood shavings” (tân = fire) + (siafins = wood shavings)

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tansoddi

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tansoddiad

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tant, tannau <tant, TA-nai, -e>  [tant, ˡtanaɪ, -ɛ] (masculine noun)
1
string (of an instrument such as a harp)

2 rhygnu ar eich hoff dant harp on = dwell tediously on a subject (“scrape on your favourite string”)

Dyna fe'n rhygnu ar ei hoff dant He's off on his hobby horse

rhygnu ar yr un hen dant harp on = dwell tediously on a subject (“scrape on the same old string”)

3 harpstrings, harp

chwarae’r tant play the harp

codwch fy nwylo i gyrraedd y tant raise my hands to touch (“reach”) the harpstrings (from the traditional song Dafydd y Garreg Wen)

delyn fy mebyd, ffarwel i dy dant o harp of my youth, farewell to your strings (from the traditional song Dafydd y Garreg Wen)

4
(diminutive form) tennyn
tennyn < *tennhyn from (tant = string) + (-yn diminutive suffix added to nouns)
(1) (musical instrument) string
(2) tether, cord, rope
(3) leash (for a dog)

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tantalwm

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tantro

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tant y llais

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tanu

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tanwaith

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tanwe

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tanwen

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tanws <TAA-nus>  [ˡtɑˑnʊs] masculine noun
PLURAL tanysau <ta-NƏ-sai, -e>  [taˡnəsaɪ, -ɛ]
1
tannery

ETYMOLOGY: English <TA-nus>  [ˡtanʊs], an older pronunciation of tanhouse <TAN-haus>  [ˡtanhaʊs]

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tanwydd <TAN-widh>  [ˡtanwɪð] masculine noun
1
fuel = combustible material to keep a fire burning (wood, coal, gas, oil)

tanwydd ffosil fossil fuel = fuel such as coal, oil or gas which is formed from prehistoric plant material

lladrad tanwydd o gerbydau a thanciau storio fuel theft from vehicles and storage tanks

gorsaf danwydd fuel station, (Englandic: petrol station), (USA: gas station)

rhestr o orsafoedd tanwydd Ynys Môn a list of fuel stations in Ynys Môn / Anglesey

tanwydd solid solid fuel

2 fuel = combustible material to operate an engine (petrol, gas)

3
traul tanwydd fuel consumption

4
fuel = fissile material used in a nuclear reactor
rhoden danwydd, plural rhodenni tanwydd fuel rod

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Tan-y-bwlch <tan-ə-BULKH>  [tanəˡbʊlx]
1 farm name, house name

ETYMOLOGY: “(place) below Y Bwlch”

Y Bwlch is “the pass, the gap between hills” (y definite article) +  (bwlch = gap)

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Tan-y-bryn <tan-ə-BRIN>  [tanəˡbrɪn]
1
street name in Porthtywyn / Burry Port (county of Caerfyrddin / Carmarthen)

 (spelt as “Tan y Bryn”).

ETYMOLOGY: tan y bryn “(the place) below the hill”

(tan = under, below) +  (y definite article) + (bryn = hill)


NOTE: Not far from here, south of the railway line, there is a street called “Dan-y-bryn”. In place names, “tan” is usually northern; the soft-mutated form “dan” is found only in the south.
(Many prepositions in use in Welsh today are soft-mutated forms – gan < can, wedi < gwedi, ar (older war) < gwar, wrth < gwrth, i (older ddi) < di). Some that begin with t- however are in use in modern Welsh both soft-mutated and without mutation : drwy / trwy, dros / tros, dan / tan.)

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Tan-y-coed <tan-ə-KOID>  [tanəˡkɔɪd]
1
street name in Porthtywyn / Burry Port (county of Caerfyrddin / Carmarthen)

 (spelt as “Tanycoed”)

ETYMOLOGY: tan y coed  “(the place) below the wood” (tan = under, below) +
 (y definite article) + (coed = wood; trees)
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tan y crwys

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Tan-y-foel ‹tan- ə-VOIL›
1 farm name, house name

ETYMOLOGY: “(place) below Y Foel”

Y Foel is “the bare hill” (y definite article) + soft mutation + (moel = bare hill)



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Tan-y-fron
‹tan- ə-VRON›
1 farm name, house name

ETYMOLOGY: “(place) below Y Fron”

Y Fron is “the (round) hill” (y definite article) + soft mutation + (bron = (round) hill; woman’s breast)

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tan y funud olaf

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Tanygrisiau

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Tan-y-groes ‹tan ə grois feminine noun
Map Reference: SN2849
1
locality in the county of Ceredigion (South-east Wales)

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/340991 Tan-y-groes o’r awyr / Tan-y-groes from the air

 

(“The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland…”)

ETYMOLOGY: “(the place) below the cross / crossroads” (tan = under) + (yr = the) + soft mutation + (croes = cross / crossroads)

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Tan-y-lan ‹tan- ə-LAN›
1 farm name, house name

ETYMOLOGY: “(place) below Y Lan”

Y Lan is “the slope; the pasture on the slope” (y definite article) + soft mutation + (glan = hillside, slope)

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tan yn ddiweddar

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Tanymarian ‹tan-ə- mar -yan›
1pseudonym of Edward Stephen (1822-1885), poet and musician, born in Rhyd-y-sarn, near Llan Ffestiniog (county of Gwynedd).
See Hen Arweinwyr Eisteddfodau / Daniel Williams / Llyfrau Pawb 12 / 1944

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Tan-yr-allt ‹tan- ər-ALHT›
1 farm name, house name

ETYMOLOGY: “(place) below Yr Allt” (tan = under, below) + (Yr Allt)

Yr Allt is “the hill, the hillside” (y definite article) + (allt = hillside, hill)

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tanysgrifiad ‹tan-ə- skriv -yad› masculine noun
PLURAL tanysgrifiadau ‹tan-ə-skriv--de›
1
subscription = money paid to a publisher in order to receive copies of a magazine, a newspaper, etc for a period of e.g. twelve months

ETYM
OLOGY: (tanysgrif-i-, stem of tanysgrifio = to subscribe) + (-ad, suffix for forming a noun)

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tanysgrifio ‹tan-ə- skriv -yo› verb
1
subscribe

ffurflen danysgrifio, ffurflenni tanysgrifio subscription form  

ETYMOLOGY: literal translation of the English word subscribe; (tan = under) + (ysgrifio = to write)

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tanysgrifiwr ‹tan-ə- skriv -yur› masculine noun
PLURAL tanysgrifwyr ‹tan-ə- skriv -wir›
1
subscriber

ETYMOLOGY: (tanysgrif-i-, stem of tanysgrifio = to subscribe) + (-ad, suffix for forming a noun indicating the agent)

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Tanyweirglodd ‹tan- ə-WEIR-glodh›
1 house name in Rhiw-las  (Gwynedd)

ETYMOLOGY: “(the) (place) below the hay meadow” (“Tan y Weirglodd”)

 (tan = under, below) + (y definite article) + soft mutation + (gweirglodd = hay meadow)



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tap tap masculine noun
PLURAL tapiau tap -ye›
1
(USA: faucet) (Englandic: tap)
dŵr tap tap water, water from the tap
agor y tap to turn on the tap (“open the tap”)
rhoi’r tap i redeg turn the tap and run the water (“put the tap to run”)
cau’r tap to turn off the tap (“close the tap”)

tap dŵr oer ‹tap duur OIR› cold-water tap
tap dŵr poeth ‹tap duur POITH › hot-water tap
tap dŵr twym
‹tap duur TUIM›  hot-water tap

ETYMOLOGY: English tap, from Old English.
Related words in other Germanic languages are
German der Zapfen (= bung, spigot);
Norwegian tapp (= bung, spiggot)

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tâp

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tâp coch

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tâp enw

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tápestri

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tap fideo

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tap glynu

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tapio

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tapio

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tapioca

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tapio dawnsio

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taplas

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taplas gas

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taplas groes

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tapr

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tapr Mair

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ta pun

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ta pun hynny

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ta pwy

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tâp ynysu ‹taap ə- -si› masculine noun
1
(USA: friction tape) (Englandic: insulating tape)

ETYMOLOGY: “tape (of) insulating”; calque on English “insulating tape” (tâp = tape) + (ynysu = isolate, insulate)

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tar tar masculine noun
1
tar
tar coed wood tar

ETYMOLOGY: English tar < Old English; a word related to tree
German has der Teer (= tar)

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taradr, taradrau ‹TA ra dər / TA rad, ta RA dre› (masculine noun)
1
drill

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Taradr

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taradr y coed

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taradru

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táragon

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taran, taranau ‹TAA-ran, ta-RAA-nai, -e› (masculine noun)
1
thunderclap (North Wales, standard Welsh)

mellt a tharanau  thunder and lightning (“lightning flashes and thunderclaps”)
blodyn taranau red campion (“flower (of) thunderclaps”)

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taranau yn Rhagfyr, arwyddant dywydd deg

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taranfollt, taranfolltau ‹ta RAN volht, ta ran VOLH te› (feminine noun)
1
thunderbolt = wholly unexpected news, reply, etc;
y daranfollt the thunderbolt

fel taranfollt like a thunderbolt, as a bombshell (of something shocking surprise...)
Daeth y newydd fel taranfollt The news came like a bombshell
Yr oedd y canlyniadau yn dipyn o daranfollt The results were a bit of a bombshell

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taranllyd ‹ta- ran -lhid› adjective

ETYM
OLOGY: (taran = thunder) + (-llyd adjectival suffix (often suggesting contempt)

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taranog ‹ta-RAA-nog› adjective
1
thundery

ETYMOLOGY: (taran = thunder) + (-og suffix for forming adjectives)

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taranu ‹ta-RAA-ni› (verb)
1
to thunder

2
taranu mynd go along at a cracking pace, go at a good pace of knots (“thunder go”)

3
clec taran a clap of thunder
trwst taran a clap of thunder


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tarawiad

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Tarcwin Falch

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tardd-

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tarddell

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tarddiad

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tarddiant

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tarddle

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tarddlin

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tarddu ‹TAR dhi› (verb)
1
to originate

2 (river) rise, originate, take its rise, flow from
Mae Afon Gwy yn tarddu ym Mynydd Pumlumon The River Gwy (Wye) rises in the mountain of Pumlumon

3 (wound) suppurate, ooze
mae’r clwyf yn dal i darddu the wound is still oozing 

4 sprout 

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taredru

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Tarell ‹TA relh› (feminine noun)
1
river in the south-east

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Tarennig

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tarenydd

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tarfu

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targed

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targedu

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tarian, tariannau ‹TAR yan, tar YA ne› (feminine or masculine noun)
1
shield
y darian / y tarian the shield

2
(Sport) tarian geg gumshield (“shield ‹of› mouth”)

3 (Bible) tarian iachawdwriaeth shield of salvation

Samuel-2 22:36 Rhoddaist hefyd i mi darian dy iachawdwriaeth; ac â’th fwynder y lluosogaist ti
Samuel-2 22:36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.

4 tarian rhag terfysg riot shield

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tariandir

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Tariandir Cánada

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Tarian y Gweithiwr

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tario

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tarmac

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tarmacadam

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tarmacadamwr

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taro ‹TA ro› (verb)
1
hit, strike

2
Thrawodd erioed yn ’y mhen It had never occurred to me (“it never struck in my head”)

3
taro ar ddyddiau drwg fall on hard times

Tarodd ar ddyddiau drwg he fell on hard times

4
taro enw ar restr write a name in a register

5
pan oedd y taro boethaf when the battle was at its height, at its most intense (“when the striking was hottest”)

6
taro dros ryddid strike a blow for freedom

7
mynd yn daro (argument) end up in a fight (“become striking”)
Aeth yn daro A fight broke out, it all ended in a fight
Aeth yn daro gwyllt All hell broke lose, blows fell thick and fast

8
taro (rhywun) i’r dim suit down to the ground
Byddai’r tyddyn yn ei daro i'r dim o ran maint a rhent
The smallholding would
suit him down to the ground as regards its size and the rent

9 rhwystr taro crash barrier (“obstacle (of) colliding / hitting”)

10 place, stick, put
taro blodyn yn ei dwll botwm to stick a flower in his button hole

11
taro’ch troed ar (rywbeth) stumble over, trip over (“hit your foot on”)

12
taro yn eich talcen quash, knock for six (“hit in your forehesad”)
Tarawyd y syniad y ei dalcen The idea was quashed

13
(South-east Wales) mewn taro budr in great haste

14
taro eich pig i mewn (i rywbeth) stick your nose into something (“hit / strike your nose...”)

15 taro bargen strike a deal, strike a bargain
Ni thrawyd mo’r fargen The deal didn’t come off, The deal fell through

16 ei tharo hi ar ei chlopa hit the nail on its head (“hit it on its head”)
taro’r hoelen ar ei phen hit the nail on its head 

17 taro eich troed wrth garreg ub your foot on a stone (stub - cause to strike accidentally)

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taro ar

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taro (rhywbeth) ar ei dalcen

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taro cytundeb

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taroden

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taro deuddeg

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taro entrew

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taro deuddeg

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taro deutrew

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taro ergyd

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taro hoelen go egr ar ei phen

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taro fel ton ar graig

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taro fflat

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taro gair bach a

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taro gwaed

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taro i

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taro + i ffwrdd

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taro i lawr

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taro i mewn

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taro i'r byw

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taro llygad ar

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taro'r fargen ar ei law

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taro'r haearn tra fo'n boeth

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taro rhech

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taro'r hoel ar ei chlopa

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taro tant

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taro to

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taro untrew

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taro ymláen

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taro yn atgas ar

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taro yn chwithig

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taro yn dda

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taro yn ei ben

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taro yn erbyn

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taro yn ôl

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tarpolin

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tarren, tarrenydd ‹TA ren, ta RE nidh› (feminine noun)
1
mountainside, hill slope, rocky slope
y darren the slope

1 Y Darren name of a farm above the village of Rhisga (county of Caerffili). By it is Coed y Darren (‘wood belonging to Darren farm’)

2
See the place names below Darren Ddu, Darren Fach, Darren Fawr, Darren Felen, Darren Las, Darren Lwyd, etc

3
in south-eastern Welsh an [e] in the final syllable becomes [a] - darren > darran
Though the general rule in writing place names is to use the standard Welsh form, that is, Darren, there are instances of Darran throughout the south-east.

..a/ Y Darran district of Rhisga (county of Caerffili), where there is also “Darran Road” on English maps (which would be Heol y Darran in Welsh). The district name seems to be from the name of a farm up above it on the hillside, on maps as Y Darren. Next to the farm is Coed y Darren (“hillside wood” or “wood by Y Darren farm”)

..b/ Aberpennar (county of Rhondda Cynon Taf) (“Darran Road” on English maps, which would be Heol y Darran in Welsh).

(3) Y Maendy, Caer-dydd (“Darran Street” on English maps, which would be Heol y Darran in Welsh).

(4) Glynrhedynnog (county of Rhondda Cynon Taf) (“Darran Road” on English maps, which would be Rhestr y Darran, in Welsh)

(5) Y Darran name of a farm in Lôn-las (county of Castell-nedd ac Aberafan) There is also “Darran Wood” on English maps (“hillside wood” or “wood by Y Darran farm”) This would be Coed y Darran, in Welsh)
There are two nearby street names - “Darran Park” and “Darran Close” on English maps – which would be Parc y Darran and Clos y Darran in Welsh.
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(6) “Darran Park”, on English maps, is the name of a street in the north of Pont-y-pridd (county of Rhondda Cynon Taf) This would be Parc y Darran in Welsh.

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Tarrenhendre

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Tarren y Bwllfa

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Tarren y Gesail ‹ta ren ə GE sel› (feminine noun)
1
SH7005 ‘slope of the recess’ (Abergynolwyn, Gwynedd)

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/713132

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Tarrenhendre ‹ta ren HEN dre› (feminine noun)
1
‘slope of the winter farm’

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tartarig

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tarten, tartennau / tartenni ‹TAR ten, tar TE ne / tar TE ni› (feminine noun)
1
tart
y darten = the tart

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tarten afalau

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tarten bwmpen

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tarten fach

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tarten 'fale

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tarten riwbob

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tarth, tarthoedd ‹TARTH, TAR thidh› (masculine noun)
1
mist, vapour

2 arogldarth incense
(arogl- stem of aroglu = to give off a smell or scent) + soft mutation + (tarth = mist, vapour)

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tarthu

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tarw, teirw ‹TA ru, TEI ru› (masculine noun)
1
bull
2 gwerthu’r fuwch i brynu tarw to rob Peter to bay Paul (“sell the cow to buy a bull”)

ETYMOLOGY: Celtic. Related words (their similarity is apparent in the consonant sequence t-r) are Latin taurus (= bull), English steer (= castrated ox, castrated bull)
Tarw

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tarwaidd

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tarw du Cymreig

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tarw dur
TAA-ru DIIR masculine noun
PLURAL teirw dur ‹TEI-ru DIIR›
1
bulldozer

trac wedi ei wneud â tharw dur a bulldozed track, a track made by a bulldozer

ETYMOLOGY: “bull (of) steel”, “steel bull” (tarw= bull) + (dur = steel)
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tarwden

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tarw potel

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Tarw Sgotsh

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tas, tasau / teisi ‹TAAS, TA se / TEI si› (feminine noun)
1
pile, stack
y das = the stack

Y Das SO1932  name of a mountain in Llanelieu, Powys

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/343969

2 tas wair, tasau gwair ‹taas WAIR, ta se GWAIR› haystack
y das wair = the haystack

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tasa

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tase

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tasel

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taselog

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taselu

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tasg, tasgau ‹TASK, TA ske› (feminine noun)
1
task
y dasg = the task
Doedd neb ohonynt yn sylweddoli hyd a lled y dasg None of them realised the enormity of the task

2 gwneud cyfiawnder â’r dasg rise to the occasion, be up to the job (“do justice to the task”)

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tasgiad task-yad › masculine noun
PLURAL tasgiadau ‹task- -de›
1
splash

ETYMOLOGY: (tasg- stem of tasgu = to splash) + (-i-ad abstract noun-forming suffix)

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tasglu

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tasgmon

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tasgu

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tasgu

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tast

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tasta

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tasu

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ta ta

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taten, tatws / tatw ‹TA ten, TA tus / TA tu› (feminine noun)
1
potato
y daten = the potato

2 to express the least amount
’sdim taten o ots ’da fi I couldn’t give a damn
(nid + oes + dim + taten + o + ots + gyda + fi) (“there is not a potato of difference with me”)

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Tathan

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tato

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tato a llaeth enwyn

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tatsio

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tatw ‹TA tu› (plural noun) ‹(plural form)
1
See: taten ‹TA-ten›
= potato

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tatŵ

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tatw pum munud

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tatŵedig ‹ta tu EE dig› (adjective)
1
tattooed

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tatws ‹TA tus› (plural noun) ‹(plural form) See: taten ‹TA-ten› = potato

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tatws llaeth

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tatws 'menyn

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tatws stwnsh ‹ta tus STUNSH› (plural noun) (North Wales)
1
mashed potatoes

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 tau

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TAU

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..1 taw
(conjunction)
1
that-it-is
Gwn taw ef yw’r dyn ‹gun tau EEV iur DIIN› I know it’s him, (“I know that-it-is he who-is the man”)

Mae’n debyg taw ar ail drên y bore y bydda i’n ymadael yfory
Probably I’ll be leaving on the second train in the morning tomorrow (“that-it-is on the second train that I shall be leaving”)
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..2 taw tau masculine noun
1
silence
rhoi taw ar shut (someone) up; (“put silence on”)

rhoi taw ar eich piser chi shut someone up (“put silence on your pitcher”)

arian taw hush money, a bribe to buy somebody’s silence (“money (of) silence”)

2
does daw (of a never-ending list) there’s no end (to it)

Ar enwi ei gynnyrch does daw (line from a ballad) there’s no end to naming his products, no end to the list of things he made

3
rhoi taw arni
shut up, put a sock in it

Rho daw arni!
Shut up! Put a sock in it!

4
Does dim taw arno fe, (South) ’Oos ’m taw arno fe
He never shuts up (“there’s no silence on him”)

5
Does dim taw ar ei glep e, (North) Toes ’na ddim taw ar ‘i glep o
He never shuts up (“there’s no silence on his prattle”)

6
Taw a’i piau hi / Taw piau hi don’t breathe a word to a soul, mum’s the word
(“(it is) silence which owns it”)
Colloquially (South) Taw pia ’i

ETYMOLOGY: taw < British.
Breton tav (= silence)

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taw

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TAW

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taw-

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ta waeth am hynny

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tawch

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tawchlyd

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tawdd ‹TAUDH› (adjective)
1
molten
metel tawdd molten metal
haearn tawdd molten iron
dur tawdd molten steel

plwm tawdd molten lead

pres tawdd molten brass

brons tawdd molten bronze

ETYMOLOGY: tawdd is tawdd-, the stem of the verb toddi (= to melt) used as a past participle (= melted, molten)

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tawdd

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tawddgyffur ‹taudh- gə -fir› masculine noun
PLURAL tawddgyffuron
‹taudd-gə- -ron›
1
suppository

ETYMOLOGY: ‘melting drug’ (tawdd = stem of toddi = to melt) + soft mutation + (cyffur = drug)

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taw di, taw dithau, ebe'r atsain

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Tawe

river in south-east Wales

Abertawe “(the) estuary (of) (the) Tawe (river)” Swansea
Cwm Tawe “(the) valley (of) (the) Tawe (river)” “Swansea Valley”

Pontardawe “(the) bridge on (the) Tawe (river)”

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tawed a dawo, ni thaw atsain

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tawedog

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tawedogrwydd

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tawed y callaf

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Tawe-Fellte

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tawel ‹TAU el› (adjective)
1
quiet

2
Brodawel ‹broo- dau-el street name in Porthtywyn / Burry Port (county of Caerfyrddin / Carmarthen)   (spelt as “Brodawel”) bro dawel “tranquil area” (bro = area, district) + soft mutation + (tawel = quiet, tranquil, calm)  

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tawel a di-ffys

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tawel eich llais

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tawel eich meddwl

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Tawelfan ‹tau-el-van› feminine noun
1
house name
2
street in Ffosygerddinen (county of Caerffili)
3
locality in Cwmgïedd

ETYMOLOGY: (= tranquil place) (tawel = tranquil, quiet) + soft mutation + (man = place)

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Tawelfryn ‹tau-el-vrin› feminine noun
1
house name

2 used as a middle name: C. Tawelfryn Thomas, Methodist minister (1880-1926).
(Probably from a house name Bryntawel, with the elements reversed)

ETYMOLOGY: (= tranquil hill) (tawel = tranquil, quiet) + soft mutation + (bryn = hill)

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tawelu
1 to calm
ymdawelu
to calm down (“calm oneself”)

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tawelu'r dyfroedd

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tawelwch ‹tau E lukh› (masculine noun)
1
quietness
Daw tawelwch ar ôl storm There comes a calm after a storm

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tawelydd

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tawelyddol

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tawlfwrdd

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tawlu

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tawn-i

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tawn-i byth o'r fan!

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tawn-i'n apeb y farn!

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tawn-i heb ffoi o'r fan yma!

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tawn-i'n clemio

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tawn-i'n glem

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tawn-i'n llwgu = tawn-i'n marw

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tawn-i'n marw

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taw piau hi

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taw piau-hi'n wir - adre cyn nos, ynte

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tawr

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Tb

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Tbilisi

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T.C. ‹tii EK›

1 abbreviation for Trefnyddion Calfinaidd Calvanistic Methodists (mainly 1800s)

Nowadays Methodistiaid Calfinaidd


This abbreviation T.C. is to be seen in this photo of Tarsus, an abandoned chapel in Y Penrhyn  SH8517, Gwynedd

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/506353

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te ‹TEE› (masculine noun)
1
tea

cwpanaid o de (literary form) a cup of tea

paned o de a cup of tea

panad o de (North-west) a cup of tea

dysglaid o de (literary form of a southern expression) a cup of tea

dishgled o de (south-west) a cup of tea

dishglad o de (south-east) a cup of tea

2
deilen de plural dail te tea leaf
helygen dail-te (Salix phylicifolia) tea-leaved willow

3 cist de tea chest = large wooden box in which tea is transported and stored; this type of large wooden box reused (or a box similar in size and shape) for other purposes; generally for storing things, and for transporting objects on moving house
(cist = coffer) + soft mutation + (te = tea)

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te te
1
then
Als
o ’te. See ynteu
Nawr te Now then

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te biff ‹te BIIF› (masculine noun)
1
beef tea

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’tebol -bol›
1
(North Wales)
..a/ (health) in good shape, well;
..b/ able, capable

ETYMOLOGY: (a clipped form of atebol) ’tebol < atebol

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tebot te -bot› masculine noun
PLURAL tebotau ‹te-bo-te›
1
teapot

2
cap tebot tea cosy

3
spout (kettle, etc)
pig tebot the spout of a teapot
pig y tebot the spout of the teapot

4 (Englishism)

sbowt tebot the spout of a teapot,

sbowt y tebot the spout of the teapot

5 cap tebot tea cosy

6
tea-swiller, person who drinks a lot of tea

ETYMOLOGY: English teapot < (tea) + (pot)
NOTE: (South-east Wales) tepot (in this part of Wales ‹b› initially in the final consonont is devoiced to ‹p›

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tebycach
‹te- -kakh› adjective
1
more similar, more like; more likely; comparative form of the adjective tebyg
NOTE: (tebyg = similar, alike) + (-ach comparative suffix); tebýg-ach > tebycach, with change of g > c as a result of the influence of the superlative form tebycaf

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tebycaf
‹te--kav› adjective
1
most similar, most like; superlative form of the adjective tebyg
NOTE: (tebyg = similar, alike) + (-haf superlative suffix); tebýg-haf > tebycaf
Colloquially, words of more than one syllable lose a final
‹v›; tebycaf > tebyca

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tebyg ‹TE big› (adjective)
1
similar

2
bod yn debycach i chi eich hun unwaith eto become your old self again, regain vitality (“be more similar to you yourself once again”)

3 mwya'r tebyg most likely, more than likely
 (“(the) greatest (of) the likelihood”)

(mwya colloquial froma of mwyaf = biggest, greatest, most) + (’r < yr definite article) + (tebyg = probability, likelihood) 

4 ni + gweld + ddim o’i debyg never see its like

Am felltith weles i ddim o’i debyg e
I’ve never seen such a badly-behaved boy before (“for a badly-behaved boy I never saw anything of his like of-him”)

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tecáu ‹te KAI› (verb)
1
(weather) to clear up

ETYMOLOGY: (teg = fair) + (-háu verb suffix) > teg-háu > tecáu  (g-h > c)
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tecil ‹TE kil›
1 kettle

2 y tecil yn galw tinddu ar y crochan the pot calling the kettle black
(“the kettle calling black-arse on the cooking pot”, the kettle saying that the cooking pot has got a black bottom) 

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teclyn clywed te –klin klə-wed› masculine noun
PLURAL taclau clywed ta –kle klə-wed›
1
hearing aid

ETYMOLOGY: (“device (of) hearing”) (teclyn = device) + (clywed = hearing)

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Tecwyn ‹TEK win› (masculine noun)
1
man’s name

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Tèd ‹TED› (masculine noun)
1
man’s name - Ted (pet form of Edward)

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Tedi ‹TE di› (masculine noun)
1
man’s name - Teddy (pet form of Edward)

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tedi, tedis ‹TE di, TE dis› (masculine noun)
1
teddy (= teddy bear)

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Tefeidiad
1
(SO1284) Afon Tefeidiad  river in the district of Maesyfed (county of Powys)
English name: “Teme”

http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SO1284 source of the river

Dyffryn Tefeidiad the valley of the river Tefeidiad

 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/700415

Llanfair Dyffryn Tefeidiad SO2476 a village in this valley, over the border in England (in English as “Llanfair Waterdine”).

http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SO2476

The Welsh name means “Llanfair (of) valley (of) Tefeidiad”, that is, “the Llanfair which is in the valley of the Tefeidiad river”;

Llanfair (‘the church of Saint Mary’) is very common in Welsh village names.

ETYMOLOGY: ??

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teflyn tev -lin› masculine noun
PLURAL teflynnau ‹tev- -ne›
1
projectile

ETYMOLOGY: (tafl- = stem of taflu = to throw) + (-yn suffix for forming masculine nouns); with vowel affection a > e as a result of the y in the final syllable

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teg teeg adjective
1
fair, comely, handsome, pleasing to the eye
teg yr olwg fair to see, pleasing to the eye (“fair (of) the sight”)

y rhyw deg the fair sex, women, womankind

glandeg pretty
(glân = pretty, fair, beautiful) + soft mutation + (teg = pretty, fair, beautiful)

2
(weather) fine
ar dywydd teg in good weather, when the weather’s fine

ar Sabothau teg yr haf on Sundays in the summers when the weather was fine

Coch i fyny teg yfory Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight (“red up, fair tomorrow”) if the sky is red at sunset, tomorrow will be a fine day

cynaeafu tra bo’n dywydd deg make hay while the sun shines, make the most of an opportunity

Nid yn y bore mae canmol diwrnod teg (“it-is-not in the morning that-there-is (the) praising (of) a fair day”), that is, the weather in the morning may be fine and sunny, but the afternoon may bring rain.
A favourable situation may suddenly change, wait and see what happens in the long run.

3
fair = just, right
annhêg unfair (an + nasal mutation + teg)

gallu dweud yn deg fod... can say without fear of contradiction

Dyw hi ddim yn deg! It's not fair!

Dyw hynna ddim yn deg That's not fair!

rhannu’n deg share and share alike, share out fairly

cyfnewid teg fair exchange 

4
(price) reasonable, fair

5 teg pob hardd fine feathers make fine birds, attractive clothing makes an attractive person / an attractive appearance makes an attractive object (“(it is) fair every beautiful (thing)”)

6
fair = impartial, just, even-handed
teg a chymwys right and fair
Teg dweud fod... It’s fair to say that...

7
Gwynt teg ar ei ôl Good riddance to him (“a good wind behind him” – that is to say may a good wind fill his-her sails and take him-her away speedily). Compare the equivalent Catalan expression “bon vent i barca nova “ – a good wind and a new boat

8
oedran teg ripe old age

byw i oedran teg live to a ripe old age

mewn oedran teg advanced in years (“in a fair age”)

Er mewn oedran teg dalia Mr Edwards i gerdded deng milltir bob dydd
Although he’s well on in years Mr Edwards continues to walk ten miles every day

Fe welodd oedran teg He had a long life, he lived to a ripe old age (“he saw a fair life”)

9
yn deg (adverb) = very much

Roedd wedi gwylltu yn deg He was really angry

10
deg (adverb) very
ara deg slowly, very slowly

11
yn deg (indicating maximum extent) very

Ar y gwaelod yn deg yr oedd y dillad gwely
The bed clothes were at the very bottom (of the bed)

12
total
Damwain deg oedd hi
It was a complete accident, It was a total accident

13
examples of place names (house names, street names, village names):

..1/ Anedd-deg “(the) fair house” house name

..2/ Bro-deg ‘(the) fair country’; a street name in Aber-dâr

..3/ Bryn-teg ‘(the) fair hill’ Name of various places – e.g. SJ3052 locality in the county of Wrecsam; also with the elements reversed Tegfryn (teg + soft mutation ‹b› > ‹v› + bryn)

..4/ Cae-teg ‘fair field’
In Llandysilio, by Clunderwen in the county of Penfro, there is a Ffordd Cae-teg (“Ffordd Cae Teg”)

..4/ Coed-teg ‘fair wood’
Farm in Baecolwyn / Colwyn Bay (Conwy) (“Coed Teg”)

..5/ Cwm-teg ‘fair valley’ locality in Llan-giwg

..6/ Derwen-deg ‘fair oak’, street name in Pontardawe (county of Castell-nedd ac Aberafan)

..7/ Fron-deg < y fron deg ‘the fair hill’

SJ2848  “Frondeg Hall”, north-west of Talwrn, county of Y Fflint
(The Welsh name would be Plas y Fron-deg or Plas Fron-deg)
http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SJ2848
Plas Fron-deg (“Plas Fron Deg”) House in Llandudno

..8/ Gelli-deg “(the) fair wood” SO0207 locality in Merthyrtudful
Hafan-deg house name and street name
“fair haven” (hafan = haven) + soft mutation + (teg = fair)

..9/ Glyn-teg (“fair valley”) house name in bangor (Gwynedd) (spelt as “Glyn Teg”)

..10/ Golwg-deg / Golwg Deg (“fair view”) street in Waun-ceirch, Castell-nedd (spelt as “Golwg Deg”)

(golwg = view) + soft mutation + (teg = fair)

..11/ Hafan-deg ‘fair haven”
Street name in  Pen-coed (county of  Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) (“Hafan Deg”)

..12/ Llwyn-teg ‘fair grove, fair wood’
Name of a care home in Llanfyllin, Powys

..13/ Lôn-deg ‘fair lane’ (“Lôn Deg”)
Name of a care home in Caergybi / Holyhead (Ynys Môn)

..14/ Maes-teg ‘(the) fair field’ SS8591 town in the county of Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr

..15/ Pant-teg Name of various places – e.g. ST2898 by Pont-y-pŵl, in the county of Torfaen (“(the) fair hollow”), house in Llanfair Clydogau, etc

..16/ Pren-teg ‘(the) fair tree’ SH5841 locality in Gwynedd, 3km north-east of Porthmadog (though it seems to be an alteration of an earlier name)

..17/ Rhos-deg  ‘(the) fair moorland’ SH5417 farm near Maes-y-bont (Caerfyrddin)

..18/ Rhyd-deg ‘(the) fair ford’ SH5417 house near Maes-y-bont (Caerfyrddin)

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/573737

..19/ Talar-deg street name in Llanilar (county of Ceredigion) (“Talar Deg”)
(“fair headland / cross-ridge
‹in a ploughed field›”)
(talar = cross-ridge) + soft mutation + (teg = fair)

..20/
Tegannedd (qv)

..21/
Tegfan (qv)

..22/
Tegfryn (qv) house name in Ton-teg, county of Rhondda-Cynon-Taf, south-east Wales;

..23/
Tegfynydd (qv) (house name in Bangor, Gwynedd)

..24/
Teglwyn Name of a house in Ffos-y-ffin, Ceredigion

..25/
Tegwel (qv)

..26/ Ton-teg ‘(the) fair grassland’
..a/ ST0986 locality in the county of Rhondda-Cynon-Taf, south-east Wales

http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/ST0986

..b/ street name in  Pen-coed (county of  Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) (“Ton Teg”)

..27/ Twyn-teg “(the) fair hill” street name in Bryn-coch, Castell-nedd

..28/ Tyle-teg “(the) fair hill” street name in Porthtywyn / Burry Port (Caerfyrddin)

..29/ Wernos-deg
Wernas-deg locality in Beddgelert (county of Gwynedd) < y wernos deg (“fair small alders”)

..30/ Ynys-deg ‹ə-nis deeg
1 house name in Bancyfelin (county of Caerfyrddin) 
2 street name in Ton-du (county of Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) (“Ynysdeg”)
 “fair island / fair meadow”

(ynys = island; riverside meadow) + soft mutation + (teg = fair)

14 Ara’ deg piau hi Don’t get het up! Keep calm! (“slow fair has it”)

15
Hafod-decaf (qv) Street name (“Hafod Decaf”) in Y Pil (county of Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr)
Originally the name of a summer farm
“yr hafod decaf” (“(the) fairest summer-farm”)

In fact, a distortion of Hafodwgan “hafod Wgan” (“(the) summer-farm (of) Gwgan (= man’s name)”)
(See“HAFOD and HAFOTY in Welsh Place-names” / Melville Richards)

16
tegan toy
(teg = fair, pretty) + (-an diminutive suffix added to an adjective to form a noun) 

See also Tegannedd, Tegfan, Tegwedd, Tegwel, Tegwen, Tegwyn

ETYMOLOGY: Welsh < British
From the same British root: Cornish teg (= fair)

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Tèg teg m
1
short
form of Tegwyn or Tegwen, or any other male or female name beginning with Teg- (Tegwel, etc)  

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Tegai TEE-gai f
1
woman’s name 
ETYMOLOGY: Apparently Tegai (= Tégai) < Tegai (= Tegái),  patron of  Llandegái (though today the more correct name Llandygái is used, and the saint was male
Dygái is (dy = your; thy; used as a prefix to create hypochoristic names) + soft mutation + (Cai = male forename)
A short distance south from Penrhyn is Llandegai, whose patron (Tegai) was brother to Llechid,  patroness of the adjoining parish.
Beaumaris Bay: The Shores of the Menai, and the Interior of Snowdonia; Scenery Unrivalled in its Comprehensive Variety, The Interesting Objects which it includes, and the Sublime Prominence of its Features. Richard Llwyd. 1832
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tegaidd te-gedh› adj
1
beautiful, pretty 

2
pleasant, agreeable  

3
(weather) fine
tegeiddio
clear up, get fine 

ETYMOLOGY: (teg = fair, pretty) + (-aidd suffix for forming adjectives)

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tegan te-gan› masculine noun
PLURAL teganau ‹ te- -ne›
1
toy = plaything, object for playing with 

2
toy = nonfunctioning replica, miniature 

3
toy (attribute)
dryll tegan
toy gun 

ETYMOLOGY: (teg = fair, pretty) + (-an diminutive suffix added to an adjective to form a noun)
Cf Cornish tegenn (= trinket, jewel), with the suffix -enn corresponding to Welsh -en
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Tegannedd ‹ teg- a-nedh›
1 house name, Corwen

2 house name, Llan Ffestiniog (Gwynedd)

3 house name, Y Waun-fawr (Gwynedd)

ETYMOLOGY: “fair abode” (teg = fair) + (annedd = abode)

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teganu ‹ te- -ni› verb
1 (county of Ceredigion) indulge, spoil (a child)
cael gormod o’ch teganu get too much attention (“get too much of your indulging”)

ETYMOLOGY: (tegan = toy) + (-u suffix for forming verbs)

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tegeiddio ‹ te-geidh-yo› verb
1
(North-west) (weather) clear up, get fine
mae’r tywydd yn tegeiddio drachefn
The weather’s clearing up again   

ETYMOLOGY: (tegaidd = fine) + (-io suffix for forming verbs)
(-ai > -ei before the i in the last syllable) 

NOTE: Colloquial form: tegiddio (ei in the tonic syllable > i)
Also tygiddio (e > y)

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Tegeingl ‹te GEI ngəl› (feminine noun)
1
(History) name of a hundred in the country of Gwynedd Is Conwy

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tegell, tegelli / tegellau ‹TE gelh, te GE lhi / lhe› (masculine noun)
1
kettle

2 y tegell yn galw tinddu ar y crochan the pot calling the kettle black
(“the kettle calling black-arse on the cooking pot”, the kettle saying that the cooking pot has got a black bottom) 

Used to point out that somebody is accusing another person of faults or defects which he / she himself has

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Tegfan  ‹TEG-van›
1
house name

Name of a house in Bangor (Gwynedd)


ETYMOLOGY: “fair place” (teg = fair) + soft mutation + (man = place)

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Tegfryn  teg-vrin›
1
house name in Ton-teg, county of Rhondda-Cynon-Taf, south-east Wales

2 Heol Tegfryn street in Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr

ETYMOLOGY: “fair hill” (teg = fair) + soft mutation + (bryn = hill)

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Tegfynydd  ‹teg-VƏN-idh ›
1
street name in Glynyswistir / Swiss Valley, Llanelli, county of Caerfyrddin   

ETYMOLOGY: “fair highland” (teg = fair) + soft mutation + (mynydd = upland, highland, mountain)

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Tegid -gid› masculine noun
1
man’s name = Tacitus.
Bro Tegid ((“the”) district (of) Tegid”) - the district around Llyn Tegid
Llyn Tegid (qv) ‘the lake of Tegid’, name of a lake by Y Bala, county of Gwynedd
Ysgol Bro Tegid (“school (of) Bro Tegid”) name of a primary school in the town of Y Bala

ETYMOLOGY: Probably Welsh Tegid < British Takit- < Latin Tacitus

NOTE: Used as an epithet in the pseudonyms of some poets in the 1800s, it is now occasionally found as a first name. The forename usually indicates a connection with the area around Llyn Tegid.

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Teglwyn  ‹TEG-luin›
1
Name of a house in Ffos-y-ffin, Ceredigion

ETYMOLOGY: “fair grove” (teg = fair) + soft mutation + (llwyn = grove)

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Tegwedd ‹TEG wedh› (feminine noun)
1
woman’s name 
ETYMOLOGY: “fair countenance” (teg = fair, pretty) + soft mutation + (gwedd = countenance, look, appearance,  mien)

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tegwel teg -wel›
1
Tegwel woman’s name (‘fair aspect’)

2 Tegwel man’s name

3
Tegwel place name, ‘Fair Prospect’, ‘Belvedere’
Botegwel (house name) (“house with a splendid view”)
(= Bod Degwel < (bod = house) + soft mutation + (tegwel fair appearance, fair view). The combination d-d, where the second d is a soft mutation of t, generally becomes t)

ETYMOLOGY: (teg = fair) + soft mutation + (gwêl view, aspecte; stem of gweld / gweled = to see)

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Tegwen ‹TEG wen› (feminine noun)
1
female forename
Short form: Tèg

ETYMOLOGY: “fair, pretty” (teg = fair, pretty) + (-wen suffix used in forming female names, in fact the soft mutated form of gwen, feminine form of gwyn = white)

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Tegwyn ‹TEG win› (feminine noun)
1
male forename
Short form: Tèg

ETYMOLOGY: “fair, handsome”  (teg = fair) + (-wyn suffix used in forming male names, in fact the soft mutated form of gwyn = white)
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tegyll ‹TE gilh› (plural noun) ‹(plural form)
See: tegell ‹TE-gelh›


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tei, teis ‹TEI, TEIS› (masculine or feminine noun)
1
tie (North: m, South: f)
y tei / y dei the tie

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teiau  <TEI-ai, -e>  [ˡtəɪaɪ, -ɛ]
1 houses, plural of tŷ (= house). The usual plural form is tai <TAI>  [taɪ]

Sant Marc 8:3 Ac os gollyngaf hwynt ymaith ar eu cythlwng i’w teiau eu hunain, hwy a lewygant ar y ffordd: canys rhai ohonynt a ddaeth o bell.         

Saint Mark 8:3 Ac os gollyngaf hwynt ymaith ar eu cythlwng i’w teiau eu hunain, hwy a lewygant ar y ffordd: canys rhai ohonynt a ddaeth o bell.   

ETYMOLOGY: In fact a double plural form (tei-, penult form of tai = houses, < = house) + (-au plural suffix)

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teida <TEI-da› [ˡtəɪda]  (m)
1
(North Wales) Diminutive form of taid (= grandfather);  granddad

ETYMOLOGY: (teid-, penult form of taid = grandfather)  + (-a diminutive suffix)

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teidiau ‹TEID ye› (plural noun) ‹(plural form)
1
See: taid ‹TAID›
= grandfather

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teier eira, teiers eira ‹tei er EI ra, tei ers EI ra› (masculine noun)
1
snow tyre

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teier, teiers ‹TEI er, TEI ers› (masculine noun)
1
tyre

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Teifi
tei -vi› feminine noun
1
(SN7867) Afon Teifi river in the county of Ceredigion

2
Aberteifi ‘mouth of the river Teifi’
Name of a town in the county of Ceredigion
English name: Cardigan

3
Tremyteifi / Trem y Teifi (“view (of) the (river) Teifi”) street name in Llandysul, county of Ceredigion
Although the use of the definite article before a river name occurs colloquially, it is considered incorrect - Tremteifi / Trem Teifi would be a more standard form

4 Brynteifi (SN4539) locality in the county of Caerfyrddin
 “(the) hill (overlooking the river) Teifi” (bryn = hill) + (Teifi river name)

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Teifi
tei -vi› masculine noun
1
man's name (from the river name)

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teigr, teigrod ‹TEI gir, TEI grod› (masculine noun)
1
tiger

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teiliwr, teilwriaid ‹TEIL yur, tei LUR yed› (masculine noun)
1
tailor

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teilwra ‹tei- lu -ra›
1
tailor = carry out the occupation of a tailor, earn one's living as a tailor

2
tailor = do the work of a tailor

3
tailor = make (a garment) to measure
siwt wedi ei theilwra a tailored suit, one made and fitted by a tailor, one made to measure

ETYMOLOGY: (teilwr = tailor) + (-a = suffix for forming verbs)

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Teilo
‹TEI lo› (masculine noun)
1
Welsh saint

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teils teils plural noun
1
tiles; plural of teilsen

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teilsen teil -sen› feminine noun
PLURAL teils teils
1
tile
y deilsen the tile
gwaith teils
tileworks

2
teilsen doi roofing tile, roof-tile (“tile (of) roofing”)

3
teilsen lorio floor tile, flooring tile (“tile (of) flooring”)

4
teilsen wal wall tile

ETYMOLOGY: teils (= tiles) + (-en, singulative suffix); < English tiles, singular tile < Old English “tîgele” < Latin têgula (= tile). Cf German der Ziegel = brick < Latin têgula

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teilwng
‹TEI lung› (adjective)
1
worthy
2
bod yn deilwng o’r achlysur be equal to the occasion, rise to the occasion (“be worthy of the occasion”)

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teilyngdod ‹tei-ləng-dod› masculine noun
PLURAL teilyngdodau ‹tei-ləng--de›
1
worth, merit, worthiness

2
(title) worship, title of respect for a mayor
Eich Teilyngdod Your Worship (judge, mayor), Your Worships
Ei Theilyngdod Her Worship (judge, mayor)
ei Theilyngdod y Faeres Her Worship the Mayoress
Ei Deilyngdod His Worship (judge, mayor)
ei Deilyngdod y Maer His Worship the Mayor
Eu Teilyngdod Their Worships

ETYMOLOGY: (teilyng- penult form of teilwng = worthy) + (-dod suffix)

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teim ‹TEIM› (masculine noun)
1
thyme

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teimlad, teimladau ‹TEIM lad, teim LÂ de› (masculine noun)
1
feeling
2
dolurio’ch teimladau hurt somebody’s feelings

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teimladrwydd
‹teim- lad -ruidh› masculine noun
1
sensitivity (to emotional feelings), sentiment

ETYMOLOGY: (teimlad = feeling) + (-rwydd suffix for forming abstract nouns)

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teimlo ‹TEIM lo› (verb)
1
feel
2
mynd i deimlo’n rhyfedd come over all funny, begin to feel strange (“go to feel strange”)
3 teimlo cywilydd o be ashamed of / about, feel ashamed of / about

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teimlydd, teimlyddion ‹TEIM lidh, teim LƏDH yon› (masculine noun)
1
feeler (of insect)

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teipiadur, teipiaduron ‹teip YAA dir, teip ya DII ron› (masculine noun)
1
typewriter

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teipiedig ‹teip YE dig› (adjective)
1
typewritten

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teipio ‹TEIP yo› (verb)
1
type

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teipyddes, teipyddesau ‹tei PƏ dhes, tei pə DHE se› (feminine noun)
1
typist (woman)
y deipyddes the typist

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teipysgrif, teipysgrifau ‹tei PƏ skriv, tei pə SKRI ve› (masculine noun)
1
typescript

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teir- teir
1
three, tri-; combining form; doesn’t cause any mutation
teirochrog trilateral
teirieithog trilingual
teirblynyddol triennial, three-yearly

ETYMOLOGY: old form of tri (= three)

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teirawr teir -aur› feminine noun
1
three hours
am tua theirawr for around three hours
Prin deirawr mewn car o borthladd Calais yw Brwsel Brussels is only three hours by car from the port of Calais
2
adjective three-hour, lasting three hours
arholiad teirawr a three-hour examination:

ETYMOLOGY: (teir- prefix = three) + (awr = hour)

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teircainc
teir -kaingk› adjective
1
having three strands or threads
rhaff deircainc three-strand rope, rope made of three strands

ETYMOLOGY: (teir- penult form of tair = three – feminine form) + (cainc = strand, feminine noun)

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Teirtref ‹TEIR trev› (feminine noun)
1
(History) a cwmwd (kúmmud) of the cantref (kántrev) of Gwent Uwch Coed, South-east Wales

ETYMOLOGY: (‘the three trêvs’’) (teir- prefix = three) + (tref = “trêv”, manor, farm)



(delw 7383)
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teirw
‹TEI ru› (plural noun)
1
‹plural of tarw ‹TA ru› = bull

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teisen, teisennau /teisenni ‹TEI sen, tei SE ne / tei SE ni› (feminine noun)
1
cake
y deisen the cake

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teisen ben-blwydd, teisennau pen-blwydd ‹tei sen ben BLUIDH, tei SE ne pen BLUIDH› (feminine noun)
1
birthday cake
y deisen ben-blwydd the birthday cake

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teisen blât, teisennau plât ‹tei sen BLAAT, tei SE ne PLAAT› (feminine noun)
1
flat cake (literally: plate cake)
y deisen blat the flat cake

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teisen briodas, teisennau priodas ‹tei sen bri O das, tei SE ne pri O das› (feminine noun)
1
wedding cake
y deisen briodas the wedding cake

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teisen ffrwythau, teisennau ffrwythau ‹tei sen FRUI the, tei SE ne FRUI the› (feminine noun) fruit cake
y deisen ffrwythau the fruit cake

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teisen frau, teisennau brau ‹tei sen VRAI, tei SE ne BRAI› (feminine noun)
1
“brittle cake”
y deisen frau the brittle cake”

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teisen gri, teisennau cri ‹tei sen GRII, tei SE ne KRII› (feminine noun)
1
flat bread, bread made without yeast
y deisen gri the flat cake

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teisen Gwener y Groglith, teisennau Gwener y Groglith ‹tei sen GWE ner ə GRO glith, tei SE ne...› (feminine noun)
1
“Good Friday cake”

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teisen heb wybod i’r siop, teisennau heb wybod i’r siop ‹tei sen hen UI bod ir SHOP, tei SE ne...› (feminine noun)
1
home-made cake

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teisen lap, teisennau lap ‹tei sen LAP, tei SE ne LAP› (feminine noun)
1
“soggy cake”

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teisen radell, teisennau gradell ‹tei sen RA delh, tei SE ne GRA delh› (feminine noun)
1
“griddle cake”
y deisen radell the “griddle cake”

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teithiadur ‹teith- -dir› masculine noun
PLURAL teithiaduron ‹teith-ya--ron›
1
itinerary = a guidebook for travelers

ETYMOLOGY: (teithi-, stem of the verb teithio = to travel) + (-adur noun-forming suffix, indicating a book)

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teithiau ‹TEITH ye› (plural noun) trips, journeys
See: taith ‹TAITH› = journey, trip

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teithio ‹TEITH yo› (verb)
1
to travel

2
costau teithio travelling expenses

3 cudd-deithio stow away = hide in a ship or a plane in order to travel without paying
(cudd = secret, hidden) + soft mutation + ( teitho = to travel)

4
teithio yn y dosbarth cyntaf travel first class

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teithiwr, teithwyr ‹TEITH yur, TEITH wir› (masculine noun)
1
traveler (England: traveller)

2
cudd-deithiwr stowaway = a person who hides in a ship or a plane in order to travel without paying
(cudd = secret, hidden) + soft mutation + ( teithiwr = traveller)

3
awyren deithwyr passenger plane
trên teithwyr passenger train

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teitl
tei -təl› masculine noun
PLURAL teitlau teit -le›
1
title = name of a book, picture, piece of music, film, play, etc
tudalen deitl = title page

2
(film) is-deitl subtitle

3
title = heading in a book, document

4
title = distinctive appellation (Syr, etc)

5
title = sports championship
daliwr teitl titleholder
deiliad teitl titleholder

ETYMOLOGY: English title < Middle English titel < Old English < Latin titulus (= title, superscription)

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teits ‹TEITS› (masculine noun)
1
pantyhose (England: tights)

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telaid TEE-laid› adjective
1
(obsolete) beautiful, fair
Plural: teleidion te-LEID-yon

Rho’dd duwies or-hael Buddugoliaeth ei choron / O flodau teleidion ar aeliau teg Gwen
(Dyffryn Cynon / Jenkin Howell / Geninen 1900 / tudalen 214)
The very generous goddess of Victory put her crown of beautiful flowers on the brow of Gwenllian

2
teleidwyn (obsolete) beautiful, fair (= telaid + gwyn / beautiful, fair)

ETYMOLOGY: probably a form of telediw (= beautiful, fair), < tâl- < talu (= to pay) + the element -ediw (= ??)

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teleidwyn ‹te-leid -win› adjective
1
(obsolete) beautiful, fair

O sweet Gweny Morgan, y “Ferch o Benderyn,” / Brenhines blith-ferched teleidwyn y byd (Dyffryn Cynon / Jenkin Howell / Geninen 1900 / tudalen 214)
Oh sweet Gweny (= Gwenllian) Morgan, the “Maid of Penderyn”, the queen of the world’s fair milkmaids

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telediad, telediadau ‹te LED yad, te led YA de› (masculine noun)
1
television broadcast

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teledu ‹te LE di› (masculine noun)
1
television
2
set deledu
‹set de LE di› TV set

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teledu lloeren ‹te LE di LHOI ren› (masculine noun)
1
satellite TV

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teledydd ‹TE le didh› (masculine noun)
1
television set

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telerau ‹te LE re› (plural noun)
1
erms, conditions

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Teleri ‹te LE ri› (feminine noun)
1
woman’s name

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teli ‹TE li› (masculine noun)
1
telly (colloquial for television)

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téliffon, teliffonau ‹TE li fon, te li FO ne› (masculine noun)
1
telephone, phone

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teliffonwraig, teliffonwragedd ‹te li FON wreg, te li fon WRA gedh› (feminine noun)
1
telephonist
y deliffonwraig = the telephonist

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telifisiwn ‹te li VI shun› (masculine noun)
1
television

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telir -lir› verb
1
it will be paid See: talu = to pay
Telir lwfans hyfforddi o £6,500 a training allowance of £6,500 will be paid

ETYMOLOGY: (tâl-, root of talu = to pay) + (-ir, passive termination, present-future tense)

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telor, teloriaid ‹TE lor, te LOR yed› (masculine noun)
1
(bird) flycatcher

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telor yr helyg te-lor ər he-lig › masculine noun
PLURAL teloriaid yr helyg ‹te-lor-yed ər he-lig ›
1
(Phylloscopus trochilus) willow warbler

ETYMOLOGY: “warbler (of) the willow trees”
Also dryw'r helyg “wren (of) the willow trees”, and (North Wales) dryw bach y ddaear “little wren (of) the ground”

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telori ‹te LO ri› (verb)
1
(bird) to trill

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telyn -lin› feminine noun
PLURAL telynau ‹te--ne›
1
harp
y delyn the harp

canu’r delyn to play the harp (“make sing the harp”)
- also the less correct form chwarae’r delyn
(“play the harp”, chwarae = to play a game, in imitation of the English expression)

telyn Geltaidd Celtic harp
telyn Gymreig Welsh harp
tant telyn harp string
telynores harpist (female)
telynor harpist (male)

Tre’rdelyn SO2059 (“trêv or farmstead of the harp”) place in the district of Maesyfed, Powys (English name: “Harpton”)

gw^yl delynau, gwyliau telynau harp festival

2
the word is used to indicate a harp-shaped field
Llain y Delyn  “(the) strip of land (of) the harp”

Cae’r Delyn or Cae Delyn “(the) field (of) the harp”
Heol Caedelyn name of a street in Eglwysnewydd, Caer-dydd (heol = street)

Parc y Delyn “(the) field (of) the harp”
Parcydelyn
street name in Caerfyrddin (“Parc y Delyn”)
“(the) field (of) the harp”, harp-shaped field, triangular field


In some field names the triangular shape is compared to a heter (= iron, smoothing iron) - Cae Heter

3
crogi’ch telyn ar yr helyg hang your harp on the willows, stop doing some activity

Psalmau 137:1 Wrth afonydd Babilon, yno yr eisteddasom, ac wylasom, pan feddyliasom am Seion. (137:2) Ar yr helyg o’u mewn y crogasom ein telynau. (137:3) Canys yno y gofynnodd y rhai a’n caethiwasent i ni gân; a’r rhai a’n hanrheithiasai, lawenydd, gan ddywedyd, Cenwch i ni rai o ganiadau Seion. (137:4) Pa fodd y canwn gerdd yr Arglwydd mewn gwlad ddieithr?
Psalms 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. (137:2) We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. (137:3) For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. (137:4) How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?

Un gwael iawn am lunio englyn oeddwn, ac felly rhoddais y delyn honno ar yr helyg
I was very bad at composing ‘englyn’ verses and so I gave that up (“I hung that harp on the willows”)

4 Telyn Arthur (“(the) harp (of) Arthur”, Arthur’s harp)
Lyra = small constellation in the northern hemisphere with the star Vega; near Cygnus (Yr Alarch) and Draco (Y Ddraig)

ETYMOLOGY: Welsh < British telen-, apparently a metathesised form of tenel- (N-L became L-N)
From the same British root: Breton telenn (= harp)

cf Latin tend(ere) (= to stretch), as in English tend, tension, etc < French < Latin

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telyneg, telynegion
‹te LƏ neg, te lə NEG yon› (feminine noun)
1
lyric
y delyneg = the lyric poem

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telynegol ‹te lə NE gol› (adjective)
1
lyrical

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telynor, telynorion ‹te LƏ nor, te lə nOR yon› (masculine noun)
1
harpist (man)

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telynores, telynoresau ‹te lə NOO res, te lə no RE se› (feminine noun)
1
harpist (woman)
y delynores = the harpist

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teml (“temel”), temlau ‹TEML, TE mel, TEM le› (feminine noun)
1
temple
y deml = the temple

Y Demel Name of a Baptist Church in Merthyrtudful, built 1896

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tempro tem -pro› verb
1
temper (metal) = make metal tougher by heating and placing in water

ETYMOLOGY: (tempr- < English to temper) + (-o, verbal suffix), < Middle English tempren < Old English < Latin temperâre (= to mix), probabably < tempus (= time)

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temptio ‹TEMPT yo› (verb)
1
tempt

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tenant, tenantiaid ‹TE nant, ta NANT yed› (masculine noun)
1
tenant

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tenau ‹TA ne› (adjective)
1
thin

2 bod cyn deneued â styllen (“be as thin as a board”) be as thin as a rake

3 araith denau poor speech, insubstantial speech

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teneuder ‹te-nei-der› masculine noun
1
thinness, slimness

ETYMOLOGY: (teneu- < tenau = thin) + (-der suffix for forming nouns)

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teneuo ‹te-nei-o› verb
1
become thin, go thin, get thinner
Mae hi wedi teneuo a cholli’r gwrid o’i gruddiau

She’s got thinner and (ahe’s) lost the bloom in her cheeks

2 slim, lose weight

3
become thin = become sparser

4
(hair) become thin = become sparser; (person) lose hair
Roedd Arwyn wedi teneuo rywfaint ar y top
Arwyn had thinned somewhat on top

5
verb with an object thin = make thin; (USA: slenderize)

6
thin out = (bed of plants) take out some plants to give others more space
yn yr ardd yn teneuo’r rwdins
in the garden thinning out the turnips

ETYMOLOGY: (teneu- < tenau = thin) + (-o suffix for forming verbs)

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teneuwch ‹te-nei-ukh› masculine noun
1
thinness, slimness

ETYMOLOGY: (teneu- < tenau = thin) + (-wch suffix for forming nouns)

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tenewyn ‹te- neu -in› masculine noun
PLURAL tenewynnau ‹te-neu- ə -ne›
1
flank

Job 15:27 Canys efe a dodd ei wyneb, â’i fraster; ac a wnaeth dyrch o floneg ar ei dewynnau
Job 15:27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks

ETYMOLOGY: (teneu- = tenau thin) + (-yn suffix to make a noun from an adjective) > teneuyn > tenewyn
For the change (eu > ew) cf
..a/ Dihewyd (place name) < *diheuyd (= zeal)
..b/ brychewyn, colloquial form of brycheuyn (= freckle)

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tenis ‹TE nis› (masculine noun)
1
tennis

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tennyn te-nin › masculine noun
PLURAL tenynnau ‹te- -ne›
1
tether, cord, rope, (USA: lariat) = rope for tethering animals); rope which restricts,
especially one attaching a grazing animal to a pole

2
tether = range of one's endurance
bod ar ben eich tennyn be at the end of your tether
dod i ben eich tennyn come to the end of your tether

3
leash (for a dog)
ar dennyn on a leash
dal (ci) ar dennyn hold a dog on a leash
gollwng ci oddi ar dennyn unleash a dog
pwt o dennyn a short leash
rhoi ci ar dennyn put a dog on a leash
rhyddháu ci oddi ar dennyn unleash a dog
tynnu ar y tennyn strain at the leash

4
(musical instrument) string

ETYMOLOGY: tennyn < *tennhyn (tant = string) + (-yn diminutive suffix added to nouns)
nt- before a final syllable > nnh- > nn-
Cf
..1/ cannoedd (= hundreds) < cant (= one hundred)
..2/ dannedd (= teeth) < dant (= tooth)
..3/ Nannau (place name ‘streams’) < nant
..4/ tannau (= strings) < tant

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tentacl, tentaclau ‹TEN ta kəl, ten TA kle› (masculine noun)
1
tentacle

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tentaclog ‹ten TA klog› (adjective)
1
tentancled, having tentacles

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têr teer adjective
1
(obsolete) pure; refined; brilliant, bright

2
terfel (obsolete) refined honey (têr = refined, pure) + soft mutation + (mêl = honey)

ETYMOLOGY: ??

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terfel ter -vel› masculine noun
1
(obsolete) refined honey

ETYMOLOGY: (têr = refined, pure) + soft mutation + (mêl = honey)

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Terfel ter-vel› masculine noun
1
man's name, variant of Derfel (arbitrary replacement of intial D with initial T)

ETYMOLOGY: (Apparently only occurs in the name of the opera singer Bryn Terfel Jones, who explained in an interview in 1977 that his mother wanted to call him Derfel, but his father wasn’t keen on the name; instead they agreed Bryn as the first name, and used a modified form of Derfel as the middle name.)

Derfel is from the village name Llandderfel (SH9837), a locality east of Y Bala, county of Gwynedd. This, (Llandderfel), the offical form of the village is in fact the local pronunciation of Llandderwfael “church (dedicated to) Derwfael”
(llan = church) + soft mutation + (Derwfael)

See Derfel for the origin of this as a male forename in the modern period

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terfyn, terfynau ‹TER vin, ter VƏ ne› (masculine noun)
1
boundary

2
end of the day
ar derfyn dydd at close of day, at the end of the day

Roedd y dydd yn tynnu at ei derfyn the day was drawing to a close

3
llinell derfyn demarcation line, dividing line, border, boundary

Saif Sharon bron ar y llinell derfyn rhwng Pennsylvania ac Ohio Sharon stands almost on the dividing line between Pennsylvania and Ohio

4
does dim terfyn ar (rywbeth) (Something) knows no bounds, is limitless
Does dim terfyn ar ei haelioni His generosity knows no bounds

5 tynnu tua’r terfyn draw to a close (in a speech)

Rhaid i mi dynnu tua’r terfyn, rhag eich blino â gormod o ffeithiau I have to draw to a close for fearing of tiring you with too many facts

6 tynnu at y terfyn draw to a close

Mae fy amser i yn tynnu at y terfyn fel gweinidog ar y capel bach hwn
My time as minister of this little chapel is drawing to a close

7 llinell derfyn (f), llinellau terfyn (race) finishing line; demarcation line
ETYMOLOGY: Welsh < British < Latin terminus (= end)

An [m] in British words regularly gives [v] “f” in modern Welsh.

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Terfyn ‹TER vin› (masculine noun)

1 Tarvin SJ4966, a village in Cheshire five miles west of Chester / Caer.

ETYMOLOGY: “boundary”. According to a “History of Cheshire” in the Public Records Office in Chester, Tarvin was spelled Tervin in 1551, and Tervine in 1599 (Tarvin Family Association http://www.tarvinfamily.org/village.html ).

The change in English of -er > -ar (/ε/ lowered before /r/) was a common feature in the 1300s and 1400s (though sometimes not reflected in the spelling until long after)



(delw 7408)

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/97725 map

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terfynell ‹ter--nelh › feminine noun
PLURAL terfynellau ‹ter-və--lhe ›
1
(Electricity) terminal
y derfynell = the erminal

ETYMOLOGY: (terfyn = end) + (-ell suffix)

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terfynol <ter VƏ nol (adj)
1 final

2 yr hyd terfynol
the home stretch, the home straight = the final stretch on a racetrack, from the last bend to the winning post

y postyn terfynol
the winning post


ETYMOLOGY: (terfyn- < terfyn = limit) + (-ol adjectival suffix)
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terfysg
ter -visk› masculine noun
PLURAL terfysgoedd ‹ ter- vəs -goidh›
1 uproar, commotion

2 unrest, riot, insurrection, troubles

codi terfysg cause unrest (“raise a commotion”)

cychwyn terfysg start a riot

darllen y Ddeddf Derfysg read the Riot Act
y Ddeddf Derfysg the Riot Act
dryll gwrth-derfysg riot gun
dryll rhag terfysg riot gun
gwn gwrth-derfysg riot gun
gwn rhag terfysg riot gun
heddlu gwrth-derfysg riot police
tarian rhag terfysg riot shield
terfysg Beca The Rebecca Riots (1840s; protests against tolls on roads)
Terfysg Tonypandy the Tonypandy Riots

3 (North Wales) thunderstorm

ETYMOLOGY: from the same Celtic source as modern Irish toirmeasc (= prohibition, prevention; mischief; mishap, misfortune)

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terfysglyd ‹ter- -sklid› adjective
1 turbulent, tumultous

ETYMOLOGY: (terfysg = commotion) + (-lyd adjectival suffix)

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terfysgwr ‹ter- -skur› masculine noun
PLURAL terfysgwyr ‹ter- vəsk -wir›

1
rioter

2
terrorist (An incorrect use; the correct word is brawychwr)

ETYMOLOGY: (terfysg = riot) + (-wr suffix = man)

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termad ‹TER-mad › masculine noun
(South Wales)           

1 scolding, telling off 

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termit ‹ter- mit masculine noun
PLURAL termitiaid ‹ter-mit-yed›
1
termite

ETYMOLOGY: English termite > Neo-Latin termitês (= white ants), plural of Latin termes (= woodworm)
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termo ‹TER-mo › verb
(South Wales)           

1 scold, tell off 
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terwyn ‹TER-uin› adj
1 fervent

2 ardent, fierce 

3 strong, brave, powerful

ETYMOLOGY: Unknown

NOTE: Page 46 / A Welsh Grammar - Historical and Comparative / John Morris-Jones (1864-1929) /
1913: The following words may be mentioned as those most commonly mispronounced: wy is the falling diphthong in cern ‘vat’, disgl, ‘look, expect’, Gnedd ‘Venedotia’, Gndid, id., morn ‘maiden’, tern ‘ fervent’; it is the rising diphthong in oherdd ‘because of’, cychn, ‘rise, start’, erchn ‘protector, [bed]-side’, deddd ‘happy’

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terwyn ‹TER-uin› m

1 man’s forename

ETYMOLOGY: See previous entry

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tes  ‹TEES› (masculine noun)
1
heat, warmth, sunshine  

2 cynnes warm
Welsh cynnes < cýn-nhes < British *kon-tess-.
Equivalent to modern Welsh (cyn- form of the prefix cyf- before d / n / t/ = together) + (tes = heat)

cynhesu to warm, heat up

cynhesrwydd warmth, affection 
     
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testun, testunau ‹TE stin, te STI ne› (masculine noun)
1
text
codi testun
choose a text (for a sermon, etc)

2
object, recipient of some action or attitude

TESTUN CYWILyDD
bod yn destun cywilydd i’ch teulu be a disgrace to your family
(testun = matter, affair) + (cywilydd = shame)

TESTUN SBORT
Nìd testun sbort mo hyn This is no laughing matter
(testun = matter, affair) + (sbort = fun, mockery)

TESTUN SIARAD TE-stin SHAA-rad›
talking point, topic of conversation, the thing on everybody’s lips
(testun = matter, affair) + (siarad = to talk)

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teth, tethau ‹TEETH, TE the› (feminine noun)
1
nipple, teat
y deth the nipple

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teulu <TEI-li>  [ˡtəɪlɪ] masculine noun
PLURAL teuluoedd <tei-LII-oidh, -odh>  [təɪˡliˑɔɪð, -ɔð]
1 family = a social group consisting of parents and children
Y teulu Rees o’r Pant-mawr enillodd y wobr

The Rees family of Pant-mawr won the prize
o deulu da from a good family

3 family = one's husband and children, or one's wife and children
Sut mae’r teulu? How’s the family?

4 family = parents and brothers and sisters; wife / husband and chuldren; grandparents, grandchildren, aunts and uncles, cousins
Oes ganddo deulu o gwbl? Does he have any family?

5 (adjective) family = for the family
clinig cynllunio teulu family-planning clinic
cylchgrawn teulu family magazine
meddyg teulu family doctor

6 family = one's children
Roedd iddynt deulu o blant ifanc a ddeuai bob amser i'r cwrdd
They had a family of small children who always came to chapel

7 family = members of a household, parents and children and maybe grandparents, etc, people living in a house
Roedd yno dri o deulu yn byw Three of the family lived there, ther was a family of three living there

8 family = the antecedents of a family, one's ancestors
Daeth ein teulu o’r Alban
Our family came from Scotland

Does dim arian wedi bod yn yn teulu ni ariôd
There's never been any money in our family

9 Mae aderyn du ym mhob teulu There’s a black sheep in every family (“a black bird in every family”)

10 family = group of people related in some way, having a common interest, etc
close community of people united by a common activity

Fe wnaethant Drefeca yn gartref i bawb hoffai adael ei fro a dyfod i gydweithio ag i gyd-addoli. Ffurfiai'r holl gwmni un teulu They made Trefeca into a home for everybody who wanted to leave their home district and to come and work and opray together. The whole group became as one family.

11 family = a group of related animals or plants or languages etc

Mae’r sgrïau hyn yn gynefin i deulu arbennig o blanhigion, fel rhedyn y chwarel (Cryptogramma crispa) a’r ffynidfwsog (Huperzia selago)
These screes are home to a special family of plants, such as parsley fern (Cryptogramma crispa) and fir clubmoss (Huperzia selago)

12 y Teulu Sanctaidd the Holy Family, the infant Jesus, Mary, and Joseph

13 Cath i dy a chi i deulu (“(a) cat for (a) house and (a) dog for (a) family”) (Advice for someone who is thinking of keeping a pet – a cat is loyal to the place where it lives, and a dog to the people who look after it”)

ETYMOLOGY: “house group” teulu < teilu (tei- = house) + soft mutation + ( llu = crowd, group)

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tew <TEU>  [tɛʊ]  (adjective)
1
fat

2
dudew pitch-black; (du = black) + soft mutaiton + (tew = fat)
tywyllwch dudew pitch darkness

Roedd yr ystafell mewn tywyllwch dudew It was pitch dark in the room

3 pendew boneheaded, thickheaded, stupid
(pen = head) + soft mutation + (tew = thick, fat)

4
(North Wales) cytew
..a/ (adj) (liquid) thick, stiff
..b/ (m) egg batter (flour, eggs, milk)
cytew < cyd-dew (cyd- prefix = together) + soft mutation + (tew = fat; thick)

5 da tew fatstock

6 (rumour) widely disseminated
roedd y si yn dew bod... there was rumour going round that..., it was rumoured that...

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tewgoed <TEU-goid>  [ˡtɛʊgɔɪd]
1
thick wood, dense woodland

.....(1) Tewgoed farm in Pentremeurig (county of Bro Morgannwg)

.....(2) Craig y Tewgoed place above Pwll-y-glaw (county of Castell-nedd ac Aberafan) (“(the) rock / crag (of) the thick wood”). In the village of Cwmafan, below Pwll-y-glaw, there is a street called Heol Tewgoed

ETYMOLOGY: (tew = thick, fat) + soft mutation + (coed = wood)

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tewi <TEU-i>  [ˡtɛʊɪ]  (verb)
1
shut up, go quiet
Calla dawo best not to mention it, the least said the better
Y calla’ ’dawo enough said (“the wisest may he be silent”)

calla dawo < y callaf a dawo
“(it-is) the wisest that might-keep-silent”
(y definite article) + (callaf, superlative form of call wise) + (a relative pronoun, who, that) + soft mutation + (tawo he might keep silent, third person singular subjunctive of tewi to keep silent, to become silent) 

Tawed y calla’ Enough said (“let the wisest be silent”)

2
Cytuno yw tewi Silence gives consent, not speaking out against an injustice is approving this injustice (“(it is) agreeing that-is keeping quiet”)

3
tewi ynghylch (rhywbeth) keep quiet about (something)

4 Taw â dy rygnu! Stop going on about it all the time! 

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tewychu <teu-Ə-khi>  [tɛʊˡəxɪ]  (verb)
1
thicken

2 condense = remove water from
llaeth tewychedig condensed milk

3 tewychu
fatten up

twchu mochyn to fatten up a pig

NOTE: Colloquially also twchu
TUU-khi›  [ˡtuˑxɪ]  

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Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon <TEIR-nas i-NEE-dig PRƏ-dain (-den) VAUR a GO-gledh i-WER-dhon>  [ˡtəɪrnas ɪˡneˑdɪg ˡprədaɪn (-dɛn) ˡvaʊr a ˡgɔglɛð ɪˡwɛrðɔn]  (feminine noun)
1
Welsh translation of the official name of the English State – “the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”

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teyrnladdiad
‹teirn-LADH-yad› [təɪrnˡlaðjad]  masculine noun
teyrnladdiadau ‹teirn-ladh-YAA-dai, -de› [təɪrnlaðˡjɑˑdaɪ, - ɛ]
1
regicide, assassination of a king

ETYMOLOGY: (teyrn = king) + soft mutation + ( lladdiad = killing, murder)

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t-g < d-g
1
Result of the combination of final “d” and an initial “g” which is the soft mutation of “c” ‹k›

llwyd (= grey) + coed (= wood) > llwyd-goed > llwytgoed
ad- (= prefix) + cof (= memory) > ad-gof > atgof (thing remembered)
coed (= wood) + cae (= field) > coed-gae > coetgae (field enclosed by a hedge)

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Th, th thee feminine noun
1
) twenty-sixth letter of the twenty-nine letter Welsh alphabet
..1 a, 2 b, 3 c, 4 ch, 5 d, 6 dd 7 e, 8 f, 9 ff, 10 g, 11 ng, 12 h, 13 i, 14 j, 15 l, 16 ll, 17 m, 18 n, 19 o, 20 p, 21 ph, 22 r, 23 rh, 24 s, 25 t, 26 th, 27 u, 28 w, 29 y


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th -
1
final -th in Welsh words from British < Celtic corresponds to final -cht in Irish words from Celtic
Welsh craith (= scar), Irish créacht (= scar)
Welsh saith (= seven), Irish seacht (= seven)
Welsh noeth (= naked), Irish nocht (= naked)

2
final -th in Welsh words from British sometimes corresponds to final -z or zh in the equivalent Breton words

(In Breton z is pronounced ‹z› in all the Breton dialects, but zh represents a dual pronunciation - ‹h› in Gwened, and ‹z› in all the other dialects.)
Welsh craith (= scar), Breton kreizenn (< kreiz) (= scar)
Welsh saeth (= arrow), Breton saezh (< saez) (= arrow)
Welsh saith (= seven), Breton seizh (< seiz) (= seven)

3 Final -th sometimes is from an original final –dd

Pen Y Gogarth, Trwyn y Gogarth (near Llandudno)  > Y Gogerdd (= slope)
(though here the explanation my be that in north-west Wales an e in a final syllable becomes a

Gogerdd > Gogardd

This final syllable may then have been influenced by –arth / garth (= a hill)
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tha- tha
1
words with tha- could be forms with spirant mutation: t becomes th after the following:
(1) the conjunction a = i,
(2) the preposition â = amb,
(3) the determiner ei = her; this is
(4) i dialectally (or spelt ’i); and after some words with a single vowel or a final vowel (prepositions, conjunctions)
(5) a’i = and her
(6) â’i = with her
(7) o’i = from her
(8) neu’i = or her

tad = father,
mam a thad a mother and a father
â thadau’r plant with the fathers of the children
ei thad, i thad, ‘i thad her father
a’i thad and her father
â’i thad with her father
o’i thad from her father
neu’i thad or her father

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the- tha
1
words with the- could be forms with spirant mutation (t becomes th after the following:
(1) the conjunction a = i,
(2) the preposition â = amb,
(3) the determiner ei = her; this is
(4) i dialectally (or spelt ‘i); and after some words with a single vowel or a final vowel (prepositions, conjunctions)
(5) a’i = and her
(6) â’i = with her
(7) o’i = from her
(8) neu’i = or her

tegan = toy,
afal a thegan an apple and a toy
â theganau’r plant with the the toys of the children
ei thegan, i thegan, ’i thegan her toy
a’i thegan and her toy
â’i thegan with her toy
o’i thegan from her toy
neu’i thegan or her toy

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theatr the-a-tər › (f)
PLURAL theatrau ‹ the- a -tre›
1 theatre, (USA: theater) = building or place for staging plays 
theatr bypedau puppet theatre 
theatr cwmni repertory theatre 
theatr gylch theatre in the round 
theatr plant children’s theatre  
mynychwr theatr theatregoer
mynychwyr theatr theatregoers; the theatre-going public  
rheolwr theatr theatre manager 

2 amffitheatr (American: amphitheater) (Englandic: amphitheatre) = circular building with tiered seats around an arena
Amffitheatr Caerllion the Caerllion Amphitheatre, the Roman amphitheatre to the south-east of the village 

ETYMOLOGY: English theatre < teatre < French < Latin < Greek theâtron < theaestai (= to see)

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theatraidd ‹the A tredh› (adjective)
1
theatrical

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theatr fiwsig, theatrau miwsig ‹THE a tər VIU sig, tehA tre MYU sig› (feminine noun)
1
music hall, variety theatre

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thema, themâu ‹THE ma, the MAI› (feminine noun)
1
theme
parc thema theme park

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Thymallus thymallus
1 cangen las (f), canghennau glas / canghennau gleision grayling

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..1 ti <TII>  [tiː]  (pronoun)
1
you, ‘thou’

2
da ti for goodness' sake, for your own sake
Bydd yn dawel, da ti! Be quiet, for goodness’ sake! (da = good) + (ti = you)

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..2 ti <TII>  [tiː]  feminine noun
1
name of the letter “t”
ti fach small t
ti fawr capital t

2
(qualifier) used to describe any T-shaped thing
rhan T (engineering) T part (= T-shaped part)

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Ti <te-II>  [teː ˡiː]
1
titanium (22)

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ti a minnau <tii a MI-nai, -e>  [tiː a ˡmɪnaɪ, -ɛ] pronouns
1
you and I, you and me

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ti a thithau <tii a THII-thai, -e>  [tiː a ˡθiˑθaɪ, -ɛ] pronouns
1
you and you too, “thou and thee”

2
Ti a thithau yw hi rhyngddyn nhw (said of people in league with each other); = They’re as thick as thieves (“it’s thou and thee between them” - ie, they use the familiar form of the pronoun “you”, usually used between friends)

ETYMOLOGY: (ti = thou) + (a = and) + spirant mutation + (tithau = thou also)

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Tibét <ti-BET>  [tɪˡbɛt]  feminine noun
1
Tibet = central Asian country; capital Lhasa
yn Nhibét in Tibet

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Tibetaidd <ti-BE-taidh, -edh>  [tɪˡbɛtaɪð, -ɛð] adjective
1
Tibetan = of the country or the people

ETYMOLOGY: (Tibét = Tibet) + (-aidd suffix for forming adjectives)

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Tibeteg ‹ti-BE-teg› [tɪˡbɛtɛg] masculine noun feminine noun
1
Tibetan = language of Tibet (related to Burmese)
y Dibeteg the Tibetan language

2
adjective Tibetan (referring to the language)

ETYMOLOGY: (Tibét = Tibet) + (-eg suffix for forming nouns and adjectives to denote a language)

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ticyn <TI-kin>  [ˡtɪkɪn]  masculine noun
PLURAL <ti--nai, -e>  [tɪˡkənaɪ, -ɛ]
South-east Wales
1
a bit
ticyn o arian a bit of money

ETYMOLOGY: ticyn < dicyn < digyn < ychydigyn (ychydig = a bit) + (-yn diminutive suffix)
NOTE: also dicyn

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tild <TILD>  [tɪld] masculine noun
PLURAL tildiau <TILD-yai, -e>  [ˡtɪldjaɪ, -ɛ]
1
diacritical mark placed over a letter n in Spanish (ñ) to represent the palatalised sound

2
diacritical mark placed over an ‘o’ in Portuguese to represent a nasal sound

3
diacritical mark placed over a letter n in Breton (ñ); this letter when placed after a vowel indicates that the preceding vowel is nasal

4
diacritical mark placed over a vowel in the IPA (International Phoentic Alphabet) to represent nasalisation

ETYMOLOGY: English tild (also tilde <tildə>  [tɪldə]) < Castilian tilde < tild- < Latin titulus (= title, superscription)

NOTE: plural also tildau

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tîm <TIIM>  [tiːm]  masculine noun
PLURAL timau <TI-mai, -e>  [ˡtɪmaɪ, -ɛ]
1
team = group of people who work together
arweinydd tîm team leader

2
team = sports team, group of people who play together against another group

Daeth tîm nofio’r ysgol yn ail yn y gystadleuaeth
the school swimming team came second in the competition

tîm Cymru the Welsh team, the Wales team
tîm cartref home team
tîm hoci hockey team
tim rygbi rugby team
tîm pêl-droed football team

3
South-east Wales team of oxen, team of horses (two or more animals pulling a vehicle or a plough or other agricultural implement)

ETYMOLOGY: English team < Old English team = (1) offspring, brood, children; (2) set of draught animals - oxen, horses;
The corresponding word in German is der Zaum (= bridle)

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tin, tinau <TIIN, TII-nai, -e>  [tiːn, ˡtiˑnaɪ, -ɛ]  (masculine noun)
1
bottom, arse (USA: ass), bum

2
rhych y tin
the crease of the arse
Mae’n credu bod yr haul yn codi yn rhych ei din He thinks the sun shines out of his arse (“he thinks the sun rises in the crease of his arse”)

3
tin y nyth (qv) smallest bird in a nest

4
bod â’i din am ei ben (place) complete mess, shambles (“have its arse around its head”)

5
bys y din (vulgar) middle finger (“finger (of) the arse / ass”)

6
tin-dros-ben somersault

bwrw tin-dros-ben do a somersault
gwneud tin-dros-ben do a somersault

7 bod yn gythraul am eich tin be sex mad (“be a devil for your arse”)

8 tinddu black-arsed
(tin = cul) + soft mutation + ( du = negre) 

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tincer <TIN-ker>  [ˡtɪnkɛr] masculine noun
PLURAL tinceriaid <tin-KER-yaid, -yed>  [tɪnˡkɛrjaɪd, -ɛd]
1
tinker = person who mends objects such as kettles and pans

2
mor feddw â thincer “as drunk as a tinker”
meddwi fel tincer to get as drunk as a tinker
Cofiant Matthews, Ewenni, John James Morgan, 1922, p397
Cymhellid gwin ysgaw arno ym Mynydd Cynffig.
“A oes alcol ynddo?”
“Nac oes, fi gwnaeth e.”
Taflodd yntau lwyaid ohono i’r tân, a fflamiodd yn las.
“Dyna i chi,” meddai; “ped yfwn ddigon o hwn fe feddwn fel tincer.”

Some elderberry wine was foisted on him in Mynyddcynffig.
“Is there alcohol in it?”
“No, I myself made it.”
He threw a teaspoonful of it into the fire, and it flared up with a blue flame.
“Well now,” he said, “If I were to drink enough of this I get as drunk as a tinker” (“I would get drunk like a tinker”)

3
fel dau dincer said of two people in a heated argument or who are prone to quarrelling with each other ("like two tinkers")

4
tinker = (Ireland) wandering beggar, gipsy
Tincars y’u gelwir yn Iwerddon, sipsiwn yma

They’re called tinkers in Ireland, but gyspies here,

5
Y Tincer name of a ‘papur bro’ (Welsh-language community newspaper) in Northern Ceredigion, founded in 1977. It is named after a locally-born Welsh-speaking journalist and author Tom MacDonald (1900-1980), the son of Irish tinkers who settled in the area; and also to suggest wandering like a tinker from place to place in the district, to garner news

ETYMOLOGY: English tinker < Middle English < tin’kere < tinekere = a worker in tin; tin < Old English; cf German der Zinn = tin

Brief description by the editor of “Y Tincer” (March 2001), with our English translation appended:  http://www.papurau-bro.com/papuraubro/Tincer/indexcym.htm

Y TINCER Sefydlwyd 1977 - rhifyn cyntaf Medi 1977.
Y TINCER Founded 1977 - first edition September 1977.

YR ARDAL
Plwyfi Genau’r-glyn, (Llandre, Dôl-y-bont), Trefeurig, (Penrhyn-coch, Pen-bont Rhydybeddau, Capel Madog, Capel Dewi) Tirymynach (Bow Street, Dolau) a’r Borth. Ymunodd plwyf Melindwr yn Ionawr 1982 (pentrefi Pen-llwyn/Capel Bangor, Goginan a Chwmrheidol / Aber-ffrwd).
THE AREA: The parishes of (1) Genau’r-glyn (Llandre, Dôl-y-bont), (2) Trefeurig (Penrhyn-coch, Pen-bont Rhydybeddau, Capel Madog, Capel Dewi) (3) Tirymynach (Bow Street, Dolau), and (4) Y Borth. (5) The parish of Melindwr joined in January 1982 (the villages of Pen-llwyn / Capel Bangor, Goginan and Cwmrheidol / Aber-ffrwd).

YR ENW
Dewiswyd yr enw gan mai dyma ardal y nofelydd Tom MacDonald (1900-1980). Fe’i ganwyd yn Llandre i rieni o dinceriaid Gwyddelig. Ar ôl bod ym Mhrifysgol Aberystwyth bu’n newyddiadurwr a golygydd papur newydd yn Lloegr, Tsieina, Awstralia ac am ddeng mlynedd ar hugain (30) yn Ne Affrica, nes iddo ddychwelyd i Gymru ym 1965. Cyhoeddodd chwe nofel yn Saesneg - Gareth the Ploughman (1939), (a gyfieithwyd i’r Gymraeg gan Nansi Griffiths fel Croesi’r bryniau (1981); The Peak (1941), Gate of Gold (1946), The Black Rabbit (1948), How Soon Hath Time (1950), a The Song of the Valley (1951), pob un wedi ei lleoli yng Nghymru. Ysgrifennodd hefyd ddwy nofel Gymraeg Y Nos na Fu (1974) a Gwanwyn Serch (1982) a gyhoeddwyd ar ôl ei farw, a hefyd gyfrol o atgofion Y Tincer Tlawd (1971) a gyfieithwyd yn The White Lanes of Summer (1975). Mae’r gyfrol o atgofion am ei blentyndod yng Ngorllewin Cymru yn y blynyddoedd cyn y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf (1914-8). Mae’r enw yn awgrymu fod y Tincer yn casglu newyddion wrth fynd oddi amgylch yr ardal.

THE NAME
It was chosen since this was the area of the novelist Tom MacDonald (1900-1980). He was born in Llandre to parents who were Irish tinkers. After being in the University at Aberystwyth he was a journalist and newspaper editor in England, China, Australia and for thrity years in South Africa until he returned to Wales in 1965. He published six novels in English: (1) Gareth the Ploughman (1939), (translated into Welsh by Nansi Griffiths as Croesi’r Bryniau (= “crossing the hills”) (1981); (2) The Peak (1941), (3) Gate of Gold (1946), (4) The Black Rabbit (1948), (5) How Soon Hath Time (1950), and (6) The Song of the Valley (1951), each one located in Wales. He also wrote two novels in Welsh (1) Y Nos na Fu (= “the night that wasn’t”) (1974) and Gwanwyn Serch (“spring of love”)(1982) which was published after his death, and also a volume of reminiscences Y Tincer Tlawd (“the poor tinker”) (1971) translated (into English) as The White Lanes of Summer (1975). The volume of reminiscences is of his childhood in West Wales in the years before the First World War (1914-8). The name suggests that Y Tincer collects news as it goes around the district.

GOLYGYDD / EDITOR
...Ceris Gruffudd,
...Rhos Helyg,
...23 Maesyrefail,
...Penrhyn-coch,
...Aberystwyth,
...Ceredigion
...SY23 3HE

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tincera <tin-KEE-ra>  [tɪnˡkeˑra]  verb
verb without an object
1
ply the trade of tinker

ETYMOLOGY: (tincer = tinker) + (-a, suffix for forming verbs, ‘to perform the job of’)

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tinddu <TIN-dhi>  [ˡtɪnðɪ]
1 black-arsed 

2 y tegell yn galw tinddu ar y crochan / y tecil yn galw tinddu ar y crochan the pot calling the kettle black
(“the kettle calling black-arse on the cooking pot”, the kettle saying that the cooking pot has got a black bottom) 

3 tinddu medd y frân wrth y wylan
the pot calling the kettle black (“black-arse said the crow to the seagull”)  

ETYMOLOGY: (tin = arse, ass) + soft mutation + ( du = black)

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Tinea tinea
1 sgreten (f), sgretenod tench

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tingoch <TIN-gokh>  [ˡtɪngɔx] (adjective)
1
red-arsed, red-bottomed

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tin-noeth <tiin-NOITH>  [tiːn ˡnɔɪθ] adjective
1
bare-arsed
cael eich dal yn din-noeth be caught with your trousers down

ETYMOLOGY: (tin = bottom, arse, bum) + (noeth = bare)

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tinslip <TIN-slip>  [ˡtɪnslɪp] adjective
1
dejected, miserable, unhappy, crestfallen, with its tail between its legs, cowed

ETYMOLOGY: (tin = arse) + (slip = sloping)

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tinwen <TIN-wen>  [ˡtɪnwɛn] (adjective)
1
white-arsed, white-bottomed. Feminine form of tinwyn

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tinwyn <TIN-win>  [ˡtɪnwɪn] adjective
1
white-arsed

2
Circus cyaneus boda tinwyn or boda dinwen hen harrier (“white-arsed kite”)

(delw 7482)

3
Calidris fuscicollis pibydd tinwyn white-rumped sandpiper (“white-arsed piper”)
(Breeds on northern tundra in Artic islands islands in Canada and Alaska. Infrequent visitor to Britain).

4
county of Ceredigion glaw tinwyn Abertawe (“white-arsed rain (from) Abertawe”)
rain from the south-east, heavy and cold, and lasting all day

ETYMOLOGY: (tin = arse) + soft mutation + (gwyn = white)

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tin y nyth <tiin ə NIITH>  [tiːn əˡniːθ] masculine noun
1
smallest bird in a nest

2
county of Môn smallest pig in a litter

3
youngest child in the family

Ned bach oedd y fenga i gyd o’r pum brawd - tin y nyth fel y bydda ni’n deud
Little Ned was the youngest of the five brothers - the runt (“[the one who is at] the bottom / the arse of the nest”) as we would say

ETYMOLOGY: (“arse (of) the nest”) (tin = arse, bottom) + (y = the) + (nyth = nest)

Cf Catalan, which similarly uses the idea of a nest:
 caganiu “shit-nest”, smallest bird in a nest; smallest child in a family

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tip, tipiau <TIP, TIP-yai, -e>  [tɪp, ˡtɪpjaɪ, -ɛ] (masculine noun)
1
tip, dump, rubbish heap
tip glo coal tip
(= mound of waste material from a coal mine)

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tipio <TIP-yo>  [ˡtɪpjɔ] verb
1
tip = deposit rubble or rubbish
lorri dipio plural lorïau tipio (USA: dumptruck) (Englandic: tip lorry)

ETYMOLOGY: (tip- < English to tip = to dump rubbish) + (-io suffix for forming verbs)

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tipyn <TI-pin>  [ˡtɪpɪn] (masculine noun)
1
a bit

2
gryn dipyn considerably, very much, quite a bit

Mae hi’n gryn dipyn yn dwymach heddiw It’s a lot warmer today
Lleihaodd nifer yr aelodau gryn dipyn The membership dropped quite a bit

3
tipyn go lew quite a number, quite a few, a good few (“a fairly bold fragment of”)
tipyn go lew o (bethau) quite a number of (things), quite a few (things), a good few (things)

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tir, tiroedd <TIIR, TII-roidh, -rodh>  [tiːr, ˡtiˑrɔɪð, -ɔð] (masculine noun)
1
land

2
curo rhywun ar ei dir ei hun beat somebody at their own game (“beat somebody on their own ground / land”)

3
y Tir Sanctaidd The Holy Land, Palestine, Canaan; the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan, the area where most events in the Bible took place

4 mentro ar dir anodd tread on delicate ground, be in a delicate situation
mentro ar dir peryglus tread on delicate ground, be in a delicate situation

5
Compound words with tir as the final element
..1/ corstir boggy land (cors = bog) + soft mutation+ (tir = land) > corsdir > corstir

..2/ cytir common land - wood, pasture and waste
Street name in Bangor – “Cyttir Lane” on maps, which is presumably for Lôn y Cytir

...Y Cytir (SH8715) hillslope in the county of Gwynedd (Meirionnydd district)
cytir < cyd-dir (cyd- = joint) + soft mutation + ( tir = land)

..3/ godir (place names) lowland (cf gorthir = highland)
godir < *gwodir
(gwo- prefix = under, lower, sub-) + soft mutation + (tir = land)

..5/ gwenithdir land where wheat is grown (gwenith = wheat) + soft mutation + ( tir = land)

..6/ parcdir parkland (grassland with trees here and there)
(parc = field) + soft mutation + (tir = land)


6
canfod tir cyffredin find common ground

7
tir ymryson land in dispute, debatable land
Cf the English name Debatable Land in Scotland, which was the borderland between the rivers Esk and Sark formerly claimed by both Scotland and England

8
ar dir a daear Ceredigion on the soil of Ceredigion

Mae hen ddihareb i’r perwyl fod pob ceiliog yn gawr ar ei esgynlawr ei hun, a buaswn innau yn medru eich annerch chwi yn hyfach yr ochr arall i afon Teifi, ar dir a daear Ceredigion, yng ngwlad fy ngenedigaeth. (Enwau Lleoedd / John Rhys / Cymru / Cyfrol XI. Rhif 63. Hydref 15fed, 1896)
There’s an old saying to the effect that every rooster is a giant on its own perch, and I would be able to address you in a bolder manner on the other side of the river Teifi, in Ceredigion (“on the ground and land of Ceredigion”), in the land of my birth

9
cyfardir (obsolete) joint ploughland
(cyfar = co-tillage) + soft mutation + (tir = land)

10
maestir open country, plain
(maes = field, open land) + soft mutation + (tir = land) > *maesdir > maestir (sd > st)

11 dal eich tir hold your ground, stand your ground, manitain your ground, stand firm; = not yield
(“hold your land”)

(dal = hold) + (eich = your) + (tir = land)
Dal dy dir (slogan used by the movement Cymuned) – has the metaphoric meaning of “hold your ground, stand firm” in the face of an ever-increasing amount of land and property being lost to Welsh control as it falls into the hands of foreign buyers who move in to Wales) as well as the literal meaning of “keep your territory”

12 tir llafur land for growing corn   

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Tircalad
<TIIR KA-LAD>  [tiːr ˡkɑˑlad]  masculine noun
1
House name noted by John Hobson Mathews (Mab Cernyw) 'Cardiff Records' (1889-1911) “TIR-CALAD (the hard land.) A free tenement in the parish of Roath and manor of Roath-Keynsham (1702.) A ruined house and land named in the Heath Enclosure Award of 1809. In 1840 it was called Coed Tir Caled, hard-land wood.”

ETYMOLOGY: “y tir caled” (y definite article) + (tir = land) + (caled = hard).
In the south-east an e in the final syllable becomes > a, hence caled > calad

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Tir Iarll <tiir YARLH>  [tiːr ˡjarɬ]
1
district in South-east Wales

ETYMOLOGY: tir yr iarll “(the) land (of) the earl”, “the earl’s land” (tir = land) + (y definite article , the) + (iarll = earl)

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tirfesurydd, tirfesurwyr <tir-ve-SII-ridh, tir-ve-SIR-wir>  [tɪrvɛˡsiˑrɪð, tɪrvɛˡsɪrwɪr] (masculine noun)
1
surveyor

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tirion <TIR-yon>  [ˡtɪrjɔn] adjective
1 kind, gentle
dirion Iesu gentle Jesus (vocative form)

2 pleasant, nice
Ffarwél i blwy’ Llangywer / a'r Bala dirion deg Farewell to the parish of Llangywer and fair pleasant Bala (folk song)

3 In place names

..a/ Bryntirion (house names, street names) “Mount Pleasant”
“(y) bryn tirion” : “(the) pleasant hill” (bryn = hill) + (tirion = pleasant)
Cf. The street name “Mount Pleasant” in the district of  Bryntirion, Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr, is a translation of the Welsh district name

..b/ Glyntirion street name in Cwm-brân (county of Torfaen) (“Glyntirion”)
“(y) glyn tirion” : “(the) pleasant valley” (glyn = valley) + (tirion = pleasant)

..c/ Meinitirion (as “Meini Tirion”) street name in Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr (“pleasant stones”)

..d/ Plastirion

HOUSE NAME

....i/ house SH7674 near Henryd (Sir Ddinbych) (“Plas Tirion”)
http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SH7674 map

STREET NAME

....i/ street name in Johnstown SJ3046, Wrecsam

http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SJ3046 map

....ii/ street name in Tywyn SH7878, Abergele (county of Conwy)

http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SH7878 map

....iii/ “Plastirion Avenue” street name in Prestatyn SJ0682 (county of Y Fflint) (in Welsh this would be Ffordd Plastirion or something similar)

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/31111 map

NOTE: But see tirion below
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tirion <TIR-yon>  [ˡtɪrjɔn] masculine noun
1 grassland, plain

Place names:
Tirion Pelyn (Gwynedd)
Tirion Mawr, Tirion Bach (Ceredigion)

(There is a street called Ffordd Tirion in Sychdyn (county of Y Fflint). Could this also be Tirion = grassland?)

ETYMOLOGY: (tir = land) + (an element -ion, possibly the plural suffix)

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Tiriseg <ti-RI-seg>  [tɪˡrɪsɛg] (f / adj)
1
(neologism) Lowlandic, Scots, Doric (the Germanic language of Scotland derived from Old English)
ETYMOLOGY: (tir is = lower land) + (-eg adjective and noun suffix used in language names)
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tirlun <TIR-lin>  [ˡtɪrlɪn] masculine noun
PLURAL tirluniau <tir-LIN-yai, -e>  [tɪrˡlɪnjaɪ, -ɛ] 
1
landscape painting
2
gardd dirlun landscape garden

ETYMOLOGY: (tir = land) + soft mutation + (llun = picture)

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tirlunio <tir-LIN-yo>  [tɪrˡlɪnjɔ] verb
1
landscape = to improve the natural features of a garden, park, surroundings of a buildiing, old industrial site, etc by changing the contours, planting trees, etc

Cynllun i harddu a thirlunio’r ardal rhwng Doc Fictoria a’r Cei Llechi yng Nghaernarfon
A plan to beautify and landscape the area between Doc Fictoria (= Dock of Queen Victoria) and Cei Llechi (the Quay of the Slates) in Caernarfon

2
masculine noun landscape design

ETYMOLOGY: (tirlun = landscape) + (-io suffix for forming verbs)

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tirluniwr <tir-LIN-yur>  [tɪrˡlɪnjʊr] masculine noun
PLURAL tirnlunwyr <tir-LIN-wir>  [tɪrˡlɪnwɪr]
1
landscape painter (male)

ETYMOLOGY: (tirlun-i-, stem of the verb tirlunio = to landscape) + (-wr suffix for forming nouns = agent, ‘man’)

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tirlunwraig <tir-LIN-ureg>  [tɪrˡlɪnwrɛg] masculine noun
PLURAL tirnlunwragedd <tir-lin-uRAA-gedh>  [tɪrlɪnˡwrɑˑgɛð]
1
landscape painter (female)

ETYMOLOGY: (tirlun-i-, stem of the verb tirlunio = to landscape) + (-wraig suffix for forming nouns = woman)

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Tirmynach <tiir-MƏ-nakh>  [tiːr ˡmənax]
1
name of a farm SO2243 in Cleirwy, Powys

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/486083

ETYMOLOGY: tir mynach < tir y mynach “(the) land (of) the monk”, i.e. land owned by a monastery, a grange farm

(tir = land) + (y = the) + (mynach = monk)
The linking definite article is often omitted in place names.

See also Tirymynach below

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Y Tir Newydd <ə tiir NEU-idh>  [ə tiːr ˡnɛʊɪð]
1
Newfoundland

ETYMOLOGY: ‘the new land’ (y = the) + (tir = land) + (newydd = new)

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Tir Ralff <tiir RALF>  [tiːr ˡralf]
1
district in South-west Wales

ETYMOLOGY: “(the) land (of) Ralph”, “Ralph’s land” (tir = land) + (Ralff = Ralph)
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tirwedd <TIR-wedh>  [ˡtɪrwɛð]  feminine or masculine noun
PLURAL tirweddau <tir-WEE-dhai, -e>  [tɪrˡweˑðaɪ, -ɛ]
1
landscape = area of scenery
y dirwedd / y tirwedd = the landscape

2
landscape = a type of land surface which is the result of human action
tirweddau diwydiannol y bedwaredd ganrif ar ddeg industrial landscapes of the nineteenth century
tirwedd amaethyddol cynhanesyddol prehistoric agricultural landscape

3
pensaer tirwedd landscape architect

4
pensaernïaeth tirwedd landscape architecture

5
relief = difference between the low point and the high point in an area

ETYMOLOGY: (tir = land) + soft mutation + (gwedd = appearance)

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Tirmynach <tiir ə MƏ-nakh>  [tiːr ə ˡmənax]
1
a community in northern Ceredigion, north of Abersystwyth, comprising the five villages of Clarach, Llangorwen, Bow Street, Pen-y-garn and Y Dolau. The land once belonged to Abaty Ystrad Fflur, a Cistercian abbey by Pontrhydfendigaid in Ceredigion



(delw 7311)

2 SJ2612 a farm (and the name of a former station) near Cei’r Trallwng / Pool Quay, Powys

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/579831

ETYMOLOGY: tir mynach < tir y mynach “(the) land (of) the monk”, i.e. land owned by a monastery, a grange farm

(tir = land) + (y = the) + (mynach = monk)
The linking definite article is often omitted in place names.

See also Tirmynach above

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tithau, “tithe” <TII-thai, -e>  [ˡtiˑθaɪ, -ɛ] (pronoun)
1
you too, ‘thou too’

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tiwbglychau <tyuub-GLƏ-khai, -e>  [tjuˑbˡgləxaɪ, -ɛ] plural noun
1
tubular bells

ETYMOLOGY: “tube bells” (tiwb = tube) + soft mutation + (clychau = bells, plural of cloch = bell)

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tiwl <TYUUL>  [tjuːl] masculine noun, adjective
1
tulle = fine net fabric of silk, rayon, etc

Mae i’r ffrog felfed hon sgert tiwl ac mae’n ddelfrydol ar gyfer unrhyw barti
This velvet frock has a tulle skirt and it’s ideal for any party

ETYMOLOGY: English tulle tyuul (= type of cloth) < French tulle < Tulle (the  French name of the Occitan town of Tula where the fabric originated)



(delw 7321)

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tiwlip <TIU-lip>  [ˡtɪʊlɪp] masculine noun
PLURAL tiwlipau <tiu-LI-pai, -e>  [tɪʊˡlɪpaɪ, -ɛ] 
1
tulip

ETYMOLOGY: English tulip < New Latin < Turkish tülbend (= turban)

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tiwmor <TIU-mor>  [ˡtɪʊmɔr] masculine noun
PLURAL tiwmorau <tiu-MO-rai, -e>  [tɪʊˡmɔraɪ, -ɛ]
1
(USA: tumor) (Englandic: tumour) = a mass of diseased cells, abnormal swelling

ETYMOLOGY: English tumour < Latin tumor < tumêre (= swell)

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tiwn <TYUUN>  [tjuːn] feminine or masculine noun
PLURAL tiwniau <TYUUN-yai, -e>  [ˡtjuˑnjaɪ, -ɛ]
1
tune = melody, a piece of music which is especially memorable
y diwn / y tiwn the tune

2
mewn tiwn in tune
canu mewn tiwn sing in tune

3
allan o diwn (North, and standard Welsh) out of tune
maas o diwn (South Wales) out of tune
canu allan o diwn / canu maas o diwn sing out of tune

4
newid eich tiwn, change one’s tune = begin to act in a different way after punishment or criticism, or after a change of opinion

Sosialydd oedd e ond ar ôl cael y swydd ’na mae wedi newid ei diwn a siarad fel hen Dori mae e nawr
He was a Socialist but after getting that job he’s changed his tune and he talks like an old Tory now

ETYMOLOGY: English tune, variant of tone < French ton < Latin tonus (stretched cord, sound of this) < Greek tonos (= tension) < tenein (= to stretch)

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tiwn gron <tyuun GRON>  [tjuːn ˡgrɔn]  feminine noun
1
repetitive tune (of something repeated over and over by someone - opinion, comment, complaint, request, etc); constant gripe

Yr hen diwn gron eto. Adfer gwasanaeth milwrol er mwyn disgyblu ieuenctid heddiw
The same old tune again. Bring back military service to discipline today’s young people

2
bod fel tiwn gron
be like a record that’s got stuck (said of someone who constantly repeats something and causes annoyance)

O’r nefoedd! Rwyt ti fel tiwn gron! Rho daw arni, wnei di?
My God! You go on and on! Give it up, will you?

3
bod yn diwn gron gan rywun be somebody’s constant demand, be one of someone’s pet gripes

Rhaid mynnu bod y Gymraeg ar yr arwyddion yn gwbl gywir. Nawr rwy’n gwybod bod hon yn diwn gron gen i ers blynyddoedd.
We have to insist that the Welsh on the signs is absolutely correct. Now I know this has been a constant gripe of mine for years

Yr un fyddai’r diwn gron ganddo o hyd
He’d go on and on about the same thing all the time

ETYMOLOGY: “round tune, circular tune” (tiwn = tune) + soft mutation + (cron, feminine form of crwn = round)

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tiwniwr piano <TIUN-yur PIAA-no>  [ˡtɪʊnjʊr ˡpɪɑˑnɔ] masculine noun
PLURAL tiwnwyr pianos <TIUN-wir PIAA-no>  [ˡtɪʊn–wɪr ˡpɪɑˑnɔz]
1
piano tuner
Os am diwniwr piano cysyllter â Hefin Tomos, Llys Teilo Sant, Caerdydd
If you want a piano tuner contact Hefin Tomos, Llys Teilo Sant (= saint Teilo’s Court), Caerdydd

ETYMOLOGY: translation of English ‘piano tuner’ (tiwniwr = tuner) + (piano = piano)

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tl  
1
initial tl <tl>  [tl] in certain words can become cl <kl>  [kl] in spoken Welsh
(1) tlawd (= poor) > clawd
(2) tlws (= pretty) > clws
(3) Talerddig (= name of a village in Powys) > T’lerddig > Clerddig

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tlawd <TLAUD>  [tlaʊd] (adjective)
1
poor

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tlodi
<TLOO-di>  [ˡtloˑdɪ] masculine noun
1
poverty, beggary, destitution (= utter poverty), misery
dod i dlodi be reduced to poverty

Diarhebion 21:17 Y neb a garo ddifyrrwch, a ddaw i dlodi: a neb a garo win ac olew, ni bydd gyfoethog
Proverbs 21:17 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

2
diweddu’ch oes mewn tlodi end your life in poverty, spend the last years of your life in poverty

ETYMOLOGY: (tlawd = poor) + (-i suffix for forming abstract nouns)

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tlotach <TLO-takh>  [ˡtlɔtax]  (adjective)
1
poorer

tlotach na... poorer than

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tlotaf, tlota’ <TLO-tav, TLO-ta>  [ˡtlɔtav, ˡtlɔta] (adjective)
1
the poorest

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tlotyn <TLO-tin>  [ˡtlɔtɪn] masculine noun
PLURAL tlodion <TLOD-yon>  [ˡtlɔdjɔn] 
1 pauper, poor person = person without means of support

2 (1800s) pauper = recipient of Poor-law Relief

3 the place name Pontlotyn (county of Caerffili) is possibly Pont-tlotyn < pont y tlotyn "(the) bridge (of) the poor man"

ETYMOLOGY: tlawd (adjective = poor) + soft mutation + (dyn = man) > tlod-ddyn > tlotyn (= poor man, pauper)

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tlws <TLUUS>  [tluːs]  (adjective)
1
pretty

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to <TOO>  [toː] masculine noun
PLURAL toeau, toeon <TOI-ai, -e,-TOI-on>  [ˡtɔɪaɪ, -ɛ, ˡtɔɪɔn]
1
roof = top of a house

2
roof = top of a vehicle;
to llithrog = sliding roof

3
roof = rooftop, outside of a roof;
tu hwnt i resi toeau’r tai beyond the rows of the house roofs

4
roofspace, space above the beams and under the roof; ceiling
rhoi’r ffidil yn y to to give up an activity or attempt (“to put the fiddle (away) in the roofspace”)

5
(formerly)  thatched roof; though now such as roof is specified

to gwellt thatched roof (“roof (of) straw”)

6
(formerly) thatch = material for making a thatched roof (straw, reeds); thatching material; reeds for use as thatch; in place names such as
(a) “gwern y to” Gwern y To, Gwern To = (“(the) swamp, alder-swamp (of) the thatching reeds”)
(b) “gwaun y to” Gwaun y To, Gwaun To = (“(the) swamp, wet part of a meadow (of) the thatching reeds”)
(c) “cors y to” Cors y To, Cors To = (“(the) swamp, bog (of) the thatching reeds”)

7
types of roof:
to cawn roof made of rushes
to cribog ridge roof,
to deublyg mansard roof (“two-pitched roof”),
to gwastad flat roof,
to gwellt thatched roof, roof of thatching straw
to llech  slate roof

8
attributive roof
teilsen do, teils do = roof tile, roofing tile; roof tiles, roofing tiles;
ffenestr do = skylight

9
amdo shroud, winding-sheet = piece of cloth in which a dead body is wrapped (am- prefix = around) + soft mutation + (to covering, ceiling, roof)

10
codi’r to = (song, concert) bring the house down, receive great applause (“raise the roof”);
cododd y gân y to the song was a great success, the song won great applause (“the song raised the roof”)

11
gardd ben to - roof garden, roof with plants - flowers and bushes - in troughs and pots; pen to = (the) top (of) (the) roof

12
figurative, roof = shelter, accommodation, a place to stay or live
bod gennych do uwch eich pen = have a roof over your head, have somewhere to live

13
roof = overhead surface of a mine, cave, tunnel, vault

14
byw o dan yr un to to live under the same roof, to live in the same house

15
aderyn y to (“(the) bird (of) the (thatched) roof”), llwyd y to (“(the) grey (bird (of) the (thatched) roof”) = house sparrow

ETYMOLOGY: From the same British root: Cornish to (= roof), Breton toenn (= roof; here it is a feminine noun, with a feminine diminutive suffix –enn)

NOTE: masculine in modern Welsh and Cornish, but historically feminine, as in modern Breton

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tocbren <TOK-bren>  [ˡtɔkbrɛn] masculine noun
PLURAL tocbrennau <tok-BRE-nai, -e>  [tɔkˡbrɛnaɪ, -ɛ]
1
pollard, pruned tree

ETYMOLOGY: (toc-, stem of tocio = to prune, to trim, to pollard) + soft mutation + (pren = tree)

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tociad <TOK-yad>  [ˡtɔkjad] masculine noun
PLURAL tociadau <tok-YAA-dai, -e>  [tɔkˡjɑˑdaɪ, -ɛ]
1
(tree) pruning

ETYMOLOGY: (toc-, stem of tocio = to prune, to trim, to pollard) + (-ad = suffix for forming nouns)
 

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tocio <TOK-yo>  [ˡtɔkjɔ] (verb)
1
(bush, tree, plant) trim, clip, prune
tocio’r rhosod trim the roses

2
dock (a horse’s tail); shear the wool from a sheep’s tail

3
tocio asgell clip a wing

4
tocio maip cut leaves and roots from turnips

5
cut to the right size (eg roof slates: tocio slâts)

6
tocio ar cut back on
Bydd pum cant o weithwyr y cwmni yn cael eu rhoi ar y clwt wrth iddo geisio tocio ar gostau
Five hundred of the company’s workers will lose their jobs as it tries to cut costs

7
tocbren pollard

ETYMOLOGY: tocio < docio < (doc-, English to dock = to trim, to cut) + (-io suffix for forming verbs)

NOTE: Other words in Welsh which have t and are taken from English words in d are
(1) tracht (= a draught [of wine, etc]),
(2) tropyn (= drop [of water, etc]),
(3) tamp (= damp)
(4) traen (= drain)

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tocwaith <TOC-waith>  [ˡtɔcwaɪθ] masculine noun
1
topiary, art of trimming bushes into shapes of animals, objects

ETYMOLOGY: (toc-, stem of tocio = to prune, to trim, to pollard) + soft mutation + (gwaith = work)

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tocyn, tocynnau <TO-kin, to-KƏ-nai, -e>  [ˡtɔkɪn, tɔˡkənaɪ, -ɛ] (masculine noun)
1
ticket
codi tocyn buy a ticket (“raise a ticket”)

tocyn tymor season ticket

2
token (for a slot machine)

3
counter (in a board game)
 
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tocyn dwyfford <to-kin DUI-fordh>  [tɔkɪn ˡdʊɪfɔrð] (masculine noun)
1
round-trip ticket (England: return ticket) (literal translation: ‘ticket of two roads’)

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tocyn gwystlo <to-kin  GUIST-lo>  [tɔkɪn ˡgʊɪstlɔ]
1
pawn ticket (paper given by pawnshop owner to customer who pawns an object)

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tocynnwr, tocynwyr ‹to KƏ nur, to KƏN wir› (masculine noun)
1
ticket inspector

ETYMOLOGY: “ticket man” (tocynn- penult form of tocyn = ticket) + (-wr, suffix meaning ‘man’, in fact the soft mutated form of gŵr = man)

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tocyn unffordd <to-kin IN-fordh>  [tɔkɪn ˡɪnfɔrð] (masculine noun)
1
one-way ticket (England: single ticket) (literal translation: ‘ticket of one road’)

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toddwr <TOO-dhur>  [ˡtoˑðʊr] masculine noun
PLURAL toddwyr <TODH-wir>  [ˡtɔðwɪr]
1
smelter, founder
toddwr haearn iron smelter, iron founder

ETYMOLOGY: (todd-, stem of the verb toddio = to throw, to cast, to strike) + (-ad, suffix for forming nouns = ‘man’)

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toeau <TOI-ai, -e>  [ˡtɔɪaɪ, -ɛ]
1
plural of to = roof

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toedd hi ddim <toi-dhi-DHIM>  [tɔɪðɪ ˡðɪm] (verb)
1
she wasn’t (North)

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toedd o ddim <toi-dho-DHIM>  [tɔɪðɔ ˡðɪm] (verb)
1
he wasn’t (North)

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toeddach chi ddim <toi-dha-khi-DHIM>  [tɔɪðaxɪ ˡðɪm] (verb)
1
you weren’t (North-west)

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toeddan nhw ddim <toi-dha-nhu-DHIM>  [tɔɪðanhʊ ˡðɪm] (verb)
1
they weren’t (North-west)

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toeddan ni ddim <toi-dha-ni-DHIM>  [tɔɪðanɪ ˡðɪm] (verb)
1
we weren’t (North-west)

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toeddat ti ddim <toi-dha-ti-DHIM>  [tɔɪðatɪ ˡðɪm] (verb)
1
you (‘thou’) weren’t (North-west)

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toeddech chi ddim <toi-dhe-khi-DHIM>  [tɔɪðɛxɪ ˡðɪm] (verb)
1
you weren’t (North-east)

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toedden nhw ddim <toi-dhu-nhu-DHIM>  [tɔɪðʊnhʊ ˡðɪm] (verb)
1
they weren’t (North-east)

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toedden ni ddim <toi-dhe-ni-DHIM>  [tɔɪðɛnɪ ˡðɪm] (verb)
1
we weren’t (North-east)

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toeddet ti ddim <toi-dhe-ti-DHIM>  [tɔɪðɛtɪ ˡðɪm] (verb)
1
you (‘thou’) weren’t (North-east)

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toeddwn i ddim <toi-dhu-ni-DHIM>  [tɔɪðʊnɪ ˡðɪm] (verb)
1
I wasn’t (North)

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toeon <TOI-on>  [ˡtɔɪɔn]
1
plural of to = roof

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to gwellt <too GWELHT>  [toː ˡgwɛɬt] (masculine noun)
1
thatched roof (‘roof of straw’)

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toiled, toiledau <TOI-led, toi-LEE-dai, -e>  [ˡtɔɪlɛd, tɔɪˡleˑdaɪ, -ɛ] (masculine noun)
1
toilet

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tolciog <TOLK-yog>  tɔlkjɔg] adjective
1
dented, battered
hen fwced tolciog a dented old bucket
het dolciog a battered hat

2
(road) rough, bumpy, uneven
Nid oedd y ffordd at y tŷ ond pantle dwfn, budr a tholciog The road to the house was nothing more than a deep dirty bumpy hollow

3
(wall) bulging

ETYMOLOGY: (tolc = dent) + (-iog, suffix for forming adjectives)

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toll, tollau <TOLH, TO-lhai, -e>  [ˡtɔɬ, ˡtoɬaɪ, -ɛ] (feminine noun)
1
toll
y doll the toll
toll fewnforio export duty
toll allforio export duty

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tollau tramor a chartref <TO-lhai, -lhe. TRA-mor a KHAR-trev>  [ˡtɔɬaɪ, -ɛ, ˡtramɔr a ˡxartrɛv] plural noun
1
(Englandic: customs and excise) = taxes on imported goods and goods produced within a state (“tolls (of) abroad and (of) home”)
NOTE: After a (= and) there is spirant mutation c > ch; hence cartref > chartref

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tollborth <TOLH-borth>  [ˡtɔɬbɔrθ] masculine noun
PLURAL tollbyrth <TOLH-birth>  [ˡtɔɬbɪrθ]
1
pay booth

2 (History) tollgate, tollhouse; pay booth on a turnpike road
Ffordd Tollborth < ffordd y tollborth (= road of the tollgate); street name in Llansamlet (county of Abertawe)

(seems rather a literary name; more naturally it would be Heol y Glwyd (“(the) street (of) the gate”) (or whatever local form is used in Llansamlet for ‘gate’)

3 entrance (with pay booth and turnstile) (at a fairground, etc)

ETYMOLOGY: (toll = toll, payment) + soft mutation + (porth = gate)

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tolldal <TOLH-dal>  [ˡtɔɬdal] masculine noun
PLURAL tolldaliadau <tolh-dal-YAA-dai, -e>  [tɔɬdalˡjɑˑdaɪ, -ɛ]
1
customs duty

ETYMOLOGY: (toll = toll, customs duty) + soft mutation + (tâl = payment)

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tollfa <TOLH-va>  [ˡtɔɬva] feminine noun
PLURAL tollféydd <tolh-VEIDH>  [tɔɬˡvəɪð]
1
customs = place where one pays customs duty
y dollfa = the customs

2 toll booth = place where one pays a toll to use a road or cross a bridge

3 warws y dollfa the customs warehouse

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tollti
<TOLH-ti>  [ˡtɔɬtɪ] verb
1
(North Wales) to pour

ETYMOLOGY: form of tywalltu (= to pour). A variant with the verbal termination -u of the standard form is tywallt

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tollty <TOLH-ti>  [ˡtɔɬtɪ] masculine noun
PLURAL tolltai <TOLH-tai>  [ˡtɔɬtaɪ]
1
customs house, custom house; office in a port where customs are paid, where a ship’s documents are examined before it is allowed to enter the port

ETYMOLOGY: (toll = toll, customs duty) + soft mutation + (ty^ = house); tolldy > tollty (with devoicing of the ‘d’ after ‘ll’)

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tollwr <TO-lhur>  [ˡtɔɬʊr] masculine noun
PLURAL tollwyr <TOLH-wir>  [ˡtɔɬwɪr]
1
customs officer, customs man

2 archwiliad y tollwyr customs examination (“examination (of) the customs men”)

ETYMOLOGY: (toll = toll, customs duty) + (-wr agent suffix, man)

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tom <TOM>  [tɔm] feminine noun
PLURAL tomydd <TO-midh>  [ˡtɔmɪð]
South Wales

NOTE: as feminine noun there is soft mutation after the definite article

Colloquially though in the south the soft-mutated form dom is used as a radical form

dom ieir, rather than *tom ieir

1 (birds) excrement, droppings;
dom colomennod pigeon shit, pigeon droppings,
dom ieir chicken shit, hen droppings,
dom gwylannod seagull droppings

2 manure, dung, muck (= farmyard manure);
dom da = cowshit, cow manure (“manure (of) cattle”)
dom ceffyl = horseshit, horse dung, horse manure

(Bible) ymdreiglfa yn y dom place where an animal wallows in its dung

Pedr-2 2:22 Eithr digwyddodd iddynt yn ôl y wir ddihareb, Y ci a ymchwelodd at ei chwydfa ei hun; a’r hwch wedi ei golchi, i’w hymdreiglfa yn y dom
Peter-2 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

3 cleren y dom dung fly

4 obsolete mound, heap; see tomen

ETYMOLOGY: Welsh < British < Celtic. Cf Irish tom (= bush, shrub; clump)
NOTE: In the North, the equivalent word is tail = excrement, dung

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tomato, tomatos <to-MA-to, to-MA-toz>  [tɔˡmatɔ, tɔˡmatɔz] (masculine noun)
1
tomato

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tomen <TO-men>  [ˡtɔmɛn] feminine noun
PLURAL tomenni / tomennydd <to-ME-ni, to-ME-nidh>  [tɔˡmɛnɪ, tɔˡmɛnɪð]
1
pile, tip, heap
y domen = the pile

2
dungheap
tomen dail (“heap (of) dung”) muckheap, dungheap, dunghill, shit-heap, kitchen midden

Cleren o'r domen sy'n hedfan ucha “a fly from the dung heap flies highest” (said of someone of lowly beginnings who rises to a very prominent position, possibly as a reaction to his origin)

fel iâr ar ben y domen (person) untidy, messy (“like a hen on top of the dungheap”)

ceiliog pen y domen the top dog, king of the castle, the big cheese, the one who gives the ordres (“the cock on top of the dunghill”)

gwlyb domen
<gwliib DO-men>  [gwliːbˡ dɔmɛn] soaking wet (‘wet like a dung heap’)

3 yn chwys domen dripping in sweat
mynd yn chwys domen break out into a sweat
bod yn chwys domen
be sweating pints 

4
scrap heap
tomen sgrap scrap heap
taflu (rhywbeth) ar y domen throw something onto the scrap heap (“on the heap”)
taflu (rhywbeth) dros ben y domen throw something onto the scrap heap (“over the top of the heap”)

5 mound  = castle mound, motte of a castle

tomen castell castle mound

Place names:

..a/ Y Domen Las (= the green mound / motte) SN6896 a motte by on the bank of Afon Dyfi just below the confluence where Afon Einion joins it. Near Eglwys-fach (Ceredigion). It began as a defensive ditch in 1156 when Argleydd Rhys sought to defend the northernmost part of his lands from an incursion by  Owain ap Gruffudd ap Cynan from the territory of Gwynedd to the nort. The attack did not take subsequently place, but Argwlydd Rhys raised a mound and built a castle on it, but two years late it was captured by Normans, though the same year it was recaptured. 

http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SN6896

..b/ Hen Domen SO214980 by Trefaldwyn (county of Powys)
yr hen domen = the old castle-mound

..b/ Hen Domen SJ24051881 Llansantffraid Deuddwr (county of Powys)

..d/ Tomen y Castell, Gwyddelwern

A Topographical Dictionary of Wales / Samuel Lewis / 1849
: Gwyddelwern…On Bettws mountain, in the Uwch-Mynydd division, are vestiges of an ancient British encampment ; and about three-quarters of a mile south of the village of Gwyddelwern, in a field by the road side, there is an artifIcial mound, surrounded by a fosse, called Tommen y Castell, together with some tumuli.

..e/ Tomen y Bala a castle mound in Y Bala (county of Gwynedd)

..f/ Tomen y Faerdre SJ1956 a castle mound in Llanarmon yn Iâl

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/113830

..g/ Tomen y Mur  by Maentwrog, Gwynedd “(the) mound (of) the wall”, “(the) mound (which has) the wall (around it)”

See entry below

..h/ Tynydomen SJ 012107
English name: Cann Office
Locality in Llangadfan (county of Powys) on the road from Y Trallwng to Mallwyd

“ty’n / tyddyn y domen” (“(the) smallholding (of) the castle mound”). Nowadays it is an inn; in the back garden there is a mound which is the remnant of a  motte and bailey castle constructed in the twelfth century

..i/ Y Domen Fawr “the great mound” Name of a square in Dolgellau (Gwynedd). Called “Meyrick Square” by the English.

6 dungheap
tomen dail (“heap (of) dung”) muckheap, dungheap, dunghill, shit-heap, kitchen midden

Cleren o'r domen sy'n hedfan ucha “a fly from the dung heap flies highest” (said of someone of lowly beginnings who rises to a very prominent position, possibly as a reaction to his origin)

fel iâr ar ben y domen (person) untidy, messy (“like a hen on top of the dungheap”)

ceiliog pen y domen the top dog, king of the castle, the big cheese, the one who gives the orders (“the cock on top of the dunghill”)

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tomen lechi <TO-men LEE-khi>  [ˡtɔmɛn ˡleˑxɪ] feminine noun
PLURAL tomenni llechi, tomennydd llechi
<to-ME-ni, -nidh,  LHEE-khi>  [tɔˡmɛnɪ, -nɪð, ˡɬeˑxɪ]
1
slate tip

ETYMOLOGY: (tomen = mound) + soft mutaiton + (llechi = slates, plural of llech = slate)

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Tomen y Meirw <TO-men ə MEI-ru>  [ˡtɔmɛn ə ˡməɪ] 

1 SJ1638 a round barrow west of Glynceiriog (or Llansanffráid Glyn Ceiriog)

http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SJ1638

ETYMOLOGY tomen y meirw  “(the) mound (of) the dead people”

(tomen = mound) + (y definite article = the) + (meirw = dead people, a noun which is the plural form of the adjective marw = dead)

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Tomen y Mur <TO-men ə MIIR>  [ˡtɔmɛn ə ˡmiːr]

1 A motte or castle mound (probably Norman) constructed over the boundary wall of a first century Roman military camp.

ETYMOLOGY tomen y mur  “(the) mound (of) the wall” i.e. “(the) mound (which has) the wall (around it)” – presumably there are / were other earthworks in the area described as being a ‘tomen’. The wall referred to is the perimeter wall of the old Roman camp

NOTE: An older name was Mur y Castell (the) wall (by) the castle” - rather than “castle wall”, “(the) wall (of) the castle”

Mur y Castell appears in the fourth tale of the Mabinogi , Math fab Mathonwy. In this tale Llew Llaw Gyffes and his wife Blodeuwedd live here in the fort, after the sorceror Gwydion and Math fab Mathonwy, king of Gwynedd, create her for Lleu out of broom flowers, meadowsweet and oak blossom 

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Tomos <TO-mos>  [ˡtɔmɔs] (masculine noun)
1
Thomas
2
Sant Tomos o Acwin Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian theologian and philosopher (1225-1774)

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tomwellt <TOM-welht>  [ˡtɔmwɛɬt] masculine noun
1
mulch, decomposing vegetable matter and dung placed over earth to reduce evaporation and wind erosion

ETYMOLOGY: (tom = shit, dung) + soft mutation + (gwellt = straw, grass)

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tomysol <tom-Ə-sol>  [tɔmˡəsɔl] adjective
1
scatophagous, shit-eating

chwilod tomysol scatophagous beetles, dung beetles

trychfilod tomysol
scatophagous insects

ETYMOLOGY: (tom = excrement, shit) + (-ysol = -eating);

(ys- stem of ysu = consume) + (-ol suffix for forming adjectives)

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tomysor <tom-Ə-sor>  [tɔmˡəsɔr] masculine noun
PLURAL tomysorion <tom-ə-SOR-yon>  [tɔməˡsɔrjɔn]
1
scatophage, a creature that feeds on dung, a shit-eating creature

ETYMOLOGY: (tom = excrement, shit) + (-ysor = -eater, animal which eats);

(ys- stem of ysu = consume) + (-or suffix for indicating a an agent)

This suffix -or is from Latin -ârius, as in Welsh canghellor (= chancellor) < Latin cancellârius; it was later detached to be used as a suffix with native words – telynor (= harpist).

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ton <TON>  [tɔn] feminine noun
PLURAL tonnau <TO-nai, -e>  [ˡtɔnaɪ, -ɛ]

1
wave = ridge on the surface of a liquid
y don the wave

2
wave (in the sea)
ton fawr plural tonnau mawr breaker, large wave
hollti’r tonnau (ship) plough the waves (“split the waves”)
ar frig ton on the crest of a wave
ar frig y don on the crest of the wave

3
y don the sea (cf English ‘the waves’ = the sea)
marw ar y don (literary) to drown at sea
gwely’r don (literary) the bottom of the sea, the sea bed
distyll y don (South-east) low tide

4
something which surges like a wave; rise, increase; swelling up (followed by a decrease)
ton o frwdfrydedd a wave of enthusiasm (pwl, hwrdd)
Daeth ton o hiraeth drosto A wave of longing came over him

5
wave = curve in the hair
Mae ei wallt yn donnau His hair is wavy (“his hair is (in the form of) waves”)

6
Gwêl-y-don
/ Gwêl y Don “view (of) the sea”, sea view
House name
(gwêl = view) + (y definite article) + soft mutation + (ton = wave; sea)

7
house names / street names

..a/ Glan-y-don / Glan y Don house name “edge (of) the sea”, sea’s edge
Also Glan-don / Glan Don

..b/ Sŵn-y-don  / Sŵn y Don (“(the) sound (of) the sea”)

..1/ Baecolwyn (county of Conwy) (“Swn y Don”)

..2/ Benllech, Tyn-y-gongl (county of Môn) (“Swn y Don”)

..c/ Trem-y-don / Trem y Don “view (of) the sea”, sea view
House name, and also a street name in a number of places

8 Moel y Don <MOIL ə DON>  [mɔɪl  ə ˡdɔn] hill on Ynys Môn

 (“(the) hill (overlooking) the sea”) (moel = hill) + (y definite article) + soft mutation + (ton = wave; sea)

9
Craig-y-don SH7981  <KRAIG ə DON>  [kraɪg  ə ˡdɔn] district of Llandudno

 (“(the) rock (overlooking) the sea”) (craig = rock, crag, cliff) + (y definite article) + soft mutation + (ton = wave; sea)



10
Ton name
Dylan Ail Don = Dylan son of Ton (= the wave - a sea god in the 'Mabinogi').
..a/ Dylan < dylanw (dy- intensifying prefix) + soft mutation + (llanw = tide)

..b/ ail = second; in older Welsh, used with the sense of ‘son’;
causes soft mutation Ton > Don

11 ton lanw tidal wave

12
ton seismig seismic wave

13
ton radio radio wave

14
y nawfed don the ninth wave, supposed traditionally to be bigger and stronger than the preceding or following eight

15
crychdon ripple
(crych- <ə>  [ə] penult syllable form of crych <ii>  [iː] = ripple) + soft mutation + (ton = wave)

crychdonni to ripple

16 gwendon white-crested wave, foaming wave
‘white wave’ (gwen = feminine form of gwyn = blanc) + soft mutation + (ton = wave)

17 tonfedd wavelength

ETYMOLOGY: Welsh ton < tonn < British *tund-â < Celtic *tumd-â

From the same Celtic root: Irish tonn (= wave), Breton tonn (= wave), Cornish tonn (= wave),

Cf Latin tumêre (= to swell), as in English tumour, tumult

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ton <TON>  [tɔn] masculine noun

1
grassland, layland, meadowland, sward (= grassy surface)
cae o don grass field, a field with pasture

2
in many place names in South-east Wales:
Mynydd Ton (“mountain (of the) pasture”),

Ton-du (“black grassland” i.e. grassland on black soil) (SS8984) (village in the county of Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr)

Tongwynlais (“grassland by the Gwynlais stream”) (ST1382) (village in the county of Caer-dydd)

Tonmawr (“great pasture”) (SS8096) (village in the county of Castell-nedd ac Aberafan)

Tonna (= tonnau, “grasslands”) (SS7799) (village in the county of Castell-nedd ac Aberafan)

Tonpentre (“grassland by the place called Pentre”; pentre = village) (SS9695) (village in the county of Rhondda Cynon Taf)

Ton-teg (“fair / bonny grassland”)
..a/ (ST0986) (village in the county of Rhondda Cynon Taf)
..b/  street name in  Pen-coed (county of  Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) (“Ton Teg”)

Tonypandy (“(the) grassland (of) the fulling mill”) (SS9992) (village in the county of Rhondda Cynon Taf)

Tonypistyll (ST1996) (“(the) grassland (of) the spring / water source”) (locality in the county of Caerffili)

Tonyrefail (“(the) grassland (of) the smithy”) (ST0188) (village in the county of Rhondda Cynon Taf)

3
obsolete cyfyldon <kə-VƏL-don>  [kəˡvəldɔn] = grass at the side of the road;
(cyfyl = edge) + soft mutation + (ton = grassland)
this was used in the district of Gwynllŵg <gwin-LHUUG>  [gwɪnˡɬuːg] (locality in South-east Wales between the cities of Caer-dydd and Casnewydd)

4 South-east Wales hendon unploughed pasture land, old sward, old land
(hen = old) + soft mutation + (ton = pasture, grassland)

ETYMOLOGY: Welsh < British *tond-
From the same British root: Cornish tonn (= grassland), Breton tonenn (= vegetal layer of soil)

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Y Ton TON>  [ə ˡtɔn] masculine noun
1
short form of place names with ton as the first element

..a/ Tongwynlais (ST1382) (village in the county of Caer-dydd)
Ffair Ton (= Ffair y Ton) was the name of the Tongwynlais Fair, in Tongwynlais by Caer-dydd (Welsh Outlook 26, 1929)

2 Y Ton “the grassland”  

..a/ ST3696 place in the county of Mynwy, east of Croesyceiliog (county of Torfaen)

..b/ SS8777 name of a farm in Tregawntlo / Candleston (county of Bro Morgannwg / Vale of Glamorgan)

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/719618

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tôn, tonau <TOON, TOO-nai, -e>  [toːn, ˡtoˑnaɪ, -ɛ] (feminine noun)
1
melody, tune
y dôn = the melody

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tondir <TON-dir>  [ˡtɔndɪr] masculine noun
PLURAL tondiroedd <ton-DII-roidh, -rodh>  [tɔnˡdiˑrɔɪð, -ɔð]
1
South Wales grassland, layland

Yr oedd drws hen amaethdy Gelliwrgan yn agor i ddarn o dondir ysgwâr (Tarian y Gweithiwr 04 05 1899)
The door of the old farmhouse of Gelliwrgan opened onto a piece of square grassland

ETYMOLOGY: (ton = grassland) + soft mutation + (tir = land)

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tonnen <TO-nen>  [ˡtɔnɛn] feminine noun
PLURAL tonenni <to-NE-ni>  [tɔˡnɛnɪ]
1
grassland
y donnen = the grassland

2 district of Arfon, in the county of Gwynedd quagmire

3 county of Ceredigion skin
tonnen cig moch hard skin on bacon

ETYMOLOGY: (ton = surface, skin) + (-en suffix dimiutive suffix)
Breton tonenn (= vegetal layer of soil; bacon rind)

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tonnog <TO-nog>  [ˡtɔnɔg] adjective
1
wavy, ondulating
môr tonnog, tywodlyd y Sahara the ondulating sandy sea of the Sahara
gwallt brown tonnog wavy brown hair

2
rolling (countryside)

3
(electric current) alternating
cerrynt tonnog = alternating current, AC; the more usual expression is cyrrent eiledol :

4
(sea) rough, choppy

ETYMOLOGY: (ton = wave) + (-og suffix for forming adjectives)

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tonsur <TON-sir>  [ˡtɔnsɪr] masculine noun
PLURAL tonsuriau <ton-SIR-yai, -e>  [tɔnˡsɪrjaɪ, -ɛ]
1
tonsure = the shaven part of a head

ETYMOLOGY: English tonsure < French, or directly from Latin tônsûra < tondêre (= to shave)

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tonsurio <ton-SIR-yo>  [tɔnˡsɪrjɔ] masculine noun
1
to tonsure = to shave part of the head on becoming a monk

ETYMOLOGY: (tonsur = tonsure) + (-io suffix for forming verbs)

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Ton-teg <ton TEEG>  [tɔn ˡteːg]
1 ST0986 locality in the county of Rhondda-Cynon-Taf, south-east Wales

2 street name in  Pen-coed (county of  Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) (“Ton Teg”)

ETYMOLOGY: “(y) ton teg” ‘(the) fair / beautiful  pasture’
(y definite article) + (ton = pasture, meadowland, grassland) + (teg = fair, beautiful, bonny)

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Tonwen <TON-wen>  [ˡtɔnwɛn]
1 female forename

ETYMOLOGY: ‘sea’

(ton = wave, sea) + (-wen suffix used in creating femlae names; in origin, the soft-mutated form of gwen, the feminine form of gwyn = white; fair, beautiful, bonnie)

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Tonyrywen <TON ər Ə-wen>  [ˡtɔn ər ˡəwɛn] feminine noun
1
Place name. Name of a farm in Caer-dydd which is no longer in existence.

John Hobson Mathews (Mab Cernyw) in ‘Cardiff Records’ (1889-1911), notes “A farmhouse on the east side of the Llanishen Road, at the third milestone north from Cardiff, on the Heath”.

The name is preserved in a street name (officially “Ton-yr-Ywen Avenue”) which would be Heol Tonyrywen in Welsh.

ETYMOLOGY: (“(the) layland (of) the yew tree”) (ton = grassland, layland) + (yr definite article) + (ywen = yew, yew tree)

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top, topiau <TOP, TOP-yai, -e>  [tɔp, ˡtɔpjaɪ, -ɛ] (masculine noun)
1
top

2
top y tebot <top ə TEE-bot>  [tɔp ə ˡteˑbɔt] top of a teapot

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In place names

Top-y-glol SH9574 farm in Molefre, Conwy “(the) top (of) the knoll”

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/127716 Top-y-glol
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Top Rhymni the top part of the village of Rhymni
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http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SO1008 map
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3 Y Topiau SH8259 highland by Melin-y-coed  (county of Conwy)
http://www.geograph.org.uk/browse.php?p=323512 Y Topiau
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/514139 heolydd at y Topiau
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4 Top-y-fron farm SJ2769 in the county of Y Fflint west of Golfftyn
http://www.geograph.org.uk/browse.php?p=332467 map
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5 Top-y-rhos SJ2558 locality in Treuddyn (county of Y Fflint)
http://www.geograph.org.uk/browse.php?p=322569 map
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ETYMOLOGY: Welsh top < English top < Old English < Germanic
Cf Dutch top (= hilltop, summit), German der Zopf (= top of a tree trunk; plait; plaited loaf), Norwegian topp (= top, peak, summit)

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tor <TOR>  [tɔr] m
PLURAL torion <TOR-yon>  [ˡtɔrjɔn]
1 break, interruption 
didor <DII-dor>  [ˡdiˑdɔr], di-dor <di-DOOR>  [dɪˡdoːr] uninterrupted
(di-, negative prefix) + soft mutaiton + (tor = treatment) < torri (= to break) 

2 daeardor (Geology) cleft, fissure
(daear = land ) + soft mutation + ( tor = break, rupture) 

3 tor llengig hèrnia (“breaking (of) diaphragm”) 

4 torryn piece of chopped straw; peice of chaff
torion chopped straw; chaff 

5 tor hawlfraint breach of copyright 

6 tor proffes apostasy (“breach of religious faith”) 

7 tor addewid breach of promise 

8 tor heddwch breach of the peace 

9 tor ymddiried breach of trust, breach of faith 

10 tor Saboth Sabbath breaking 

11 ar dor (tor- = stem of verb torri) being cut 
cosyn ar dor a cheese which one has started to cut up

ETYMOLOGY: stem of the verb torri (= cut, break)

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torcalon <tor-KA-llon>  [tɔrˡkallɔn] masculine noun
1
heartbreak
marw o dorcalon die of a broken heart, die heartbroken

ETYMOLOGY: (tor = breaking, rupture) + (calon = heart)

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torch <TORKH>  [tɔrx] feminine noun
PLURAL torchau <TOR-khai, -e>  [ˡtɔrxaɪ, -ɛ]
y dorch = the wreath, the horse collar, etc

1 coil (hair, rope, etc)

2 horse collar

3 coil of a snake

4 straw coil or iron ring put on a table under a hot pot
Also called: torch ffwrn

5 torch trwysus trouser cuff (Englandic: trouser turn-up)
Roedd torchau fy nhrywsus yn llawn tywod

The turn-ups of my trousers were full of sand

Gwentian (= south-eastern Welsh): torcha’i drywziz his trouser cuffs

6 torch llawes shirt cuff

7 bod yn dorchau (socks) be curled up

8 bod yn dorch (cat) be curled up

9 wreath
torch o flodau wreath

10 coil of cloth placed on the head in order to steady an object carried on the head - pitcher of water, etc

11 gleindorch necklace, string of beads

(glein-, penult syllable form of glain = bead) + soft mutation + (torch = torque, necklace)

12 torque = necklace made of twisted metal, usually gold, worn by the ancient Celts and Germans
gyddfdorch torque

(gydd-, penult syllable form of gwddf = neck) + soft mutation + (torch = torque, necklace)

ETYMOLOGY: Welsh < British < Latin from torquês < torquêre (= to twist)

Two English words from Latin *torca are:

..a/ torch (= illumination), which is from Old French torche (= twisted straw), from Latin *torca < torquêre (= to twist);

..b/ truss (= bundle of hay, belt for hernia, structural framework) < Middle English trusse(n) < Old French trousser < torser < Vulgar Latin torciâre < Latin *torca < torqua < torquês

Indo-European root *terkw-

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torf, torfoedd / torféydd <TORV, TOR-voidh, -voidh, tor-VEIDH>  [tɔrv, ˡtɔrvɔð, tɔrˡvəɪð] (feminine noun)
1
crowd
y dorf = the crowd

2 ymwthio trwy’r dorf push one’s way through the crowd (“push oneself through the crowd”)

3 ymdoddi i’r dorf melt into the crowd, disappear

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Torfaen <TOR-vain>  [ˡtɔrvaɪn] feminine noun

1
Afon Torfaen a river in Gwent; the former name of Afon Lwyd (“grey river”)

2 (since 1996) one of the 22 counties of Wales. Administrative centre: Pont-y-pŵl.
Proportion of Welsh-speakers: 2.5% (1981)

3
(1974-1996) district (“dosbarth”) of the county of Gwent

4
electoral constituency with one seat in the ‘Cynulliad / Assembly’ (parliament) of Wales

5
electoral constituency with one seat in the parliament of the English state in London

ETYMOLOGY: “break-stone” (torr- stem of torri = break) + soft mutation + (maen = stone); so called because of the force of the flowing water

The pronuciation used by many English-speakers with the accent on the final element (Torfáen) [tor VAIN] is incorrect.

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torfol <TOR-vol>  [ˡtɔrvɔl] adjective
1
mass = of the general population

2 picedu torfol mass picketing

3 cyfathrebu torfol = mass communication

4 enw torfol = collective noun, mass noun

5 llofrudd torfol mass murderer

ETYMOLOGY: (torf = crowd) + (-ol = suffix)

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torheulo <tor-HEI-lo>  [tɔrˡhəɪlɔ] (verb)
1
sunbathe

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Tori <TOO-ri>  [ˡtoˑrɪ] masculine noun
PLURAL Torïaid <to-RII-aid, -ed>  [tɔˡriˑaɪd, -ɛd]
1
(Ireland) (century 1600) “outlaw”, “enemy”, Irish person who carried out attacks on English settlers in Ireland; the settlers had taken over the land and property from which the Irish owners had been expelled

2
later used in a sense of “opponent of the status quo”, as a name given to the supporters of James, Duke of York, by his detractors. The Duke had been excluded from the royal succession in 1679-1680, and his supporters claimed that the throne of England was rightfully his.

3
after this, in English ‘Tory’ became a description for people who supported conservative causes, and was then applied to the members of the Conservative Party formed in England some 150 years later in the 1830s

4
(England) Tory, member or supporter of the English Conservative Party

5
(United States of America) (before the Declaration of Independence, 1776) Tory = an American supporter of continued English rule of the American colonies; American English loyalist

6
(Canada) Tory, member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada

ETYMOLOGY: Welsh Tori < English Tory < Irish tóraidhe (modern Irish tóraí)
(= outlaw, bandit) < tóir (= pursuit, chase)

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toriad <TOR-yad>  [ˡtɔrjad] masculine noun
PLURAL toriadau <tor-YAA-dai, -e>  [tɔrˡjɑˑdaɪ, -ɛ]

1 break, rupture
Electricity toriad mewn cylched a break in a circuit
toriad trydan power cut 

2 cut = act of cutting (with a knife, scissors, etc)
Roedd o yno yn nhoriad y bogail (“it (= a bad trait) was there at the cutting of the umbilical cord”)

Said of somebody who has committed some crime or misdeed and is thus continuing a family tradition

3 an incision made by cutting (with a knife, scissors, etc)

4 cutting = part of a plant such as a stem or leaf which can on planting will develop its own roots and become an independent plant

5 cutting = piece which results from cutting off or cutting out from the main part (piece of cloth, newspaper report, etc)

toriad o bapur newydd (USA: clipping, article or photo cut out of a newspaper) (Englandic: cutting, newspaper cutting)

7 cut = reduction in spending in a government department leading to the provision of fewer services in the services by that department and the dismissal of staff

Mae’r adran yn wynebu toriadau ar ôl gorwario can mil o bunnau
The department faces cuts after overspending by one hundred thousand pounds

8 break = interruption of continuity
toriad mewn trafodaethau a breakdown in talks, interruption in negotiations

9 beginning
toriad dydd, toriad y dydd
daybreak, dawn, period when sunlight appears and darkness recedes
ar doriad dydd at daybreak
cyn toriad gwawr before daybreak
toriad y gwanwyn beginning of spring

11 cut = the style in which a garment is cut
siwt o doriad da a well-cut suit

12 echdoriad eruption
‘outbreak’ (ech- prefix = outside) + soft mutation + (toriad = break)

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Torïaeth <to-RII-aith, -eth>  [tɔˡriˑaɪθ, -ɛθ] feminine noun
1
Toryism = the advocacy of Conservative politics

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Torïaidd <to-RII-aidh, -edh>  [tɔˡriˑaɪð, -ɛð] adjective
1
Tory = related to the English Tory party

Un o’r cadarnleoedd Torïaidd yng Nghymru yw Sir Fynwy
The county of Mynwy is one of the Tory strongholds in Wales

Nid yw’r wasg Dorïaidd yn gweld Cymru fel cenedl
The Tory press does not regard Wales as a nation

Y Lloegr Dorïaidd
Tory England, that part of the English population which supports the Tories

ETYMOLOGY: (Tori = Tory) + (-aidd suffix for forming adjectives)

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torion <TOR-yon>  [ˡtɔrjɔn] mpl
1 chaff; chopped straw; etc See torryn 
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torlan <TOR-lan>  [ˡtɔrlan] feminine noun
PLURAL torlannau <tor-LA-nai, -e>  [tɔrˡlanaɪ, -ɛ]
1
river bank (undercut bank = eroded bank on the outside bend through the action of the river current)
y dorlan = the river bank

2 glas y dorlan Alcedo atthis = kingfisher (“(the) blue (bird) (of) the (eroded) bank”)

3 pibydd y dorlan Tringa hypoleucos = common sandpiper (“(the) piper (bird) (of) the (eroded) bank

ETYMOLOGY: (torr-, stem of torri = to break)) + soft mutation + (glan = river bank); torr- > tor- before a consonant)

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torri <TO-ri>  [ˡtɔrɪ] (verb)
1
break

2 lle torri gwallt barber's shop
mynd i’r lle torri gwallt go to the barber’s

3 rhoi eich pen i’w dorri risk your neck, stick your neck out, do something risky which might result in failure, say something which might result in criticism or ridicule
(“give / put / place your head for its cutting (off))

4 cael torri eich gwallt have a hair cut / hairdo

5 torri’r sgwrs butt into a conversation (“break the discourse”)
Peidiwch â thorri’r sgwrs don’t butt in

6 break (the ground)
torri cwys plough a furrow
torri cwys unig to plough a lonely furrow, be the only person studying some phenomenon, investigating some matter

7 torri cefn y gwaith break the back of the work

8 torri’ch colledion cut your losses

9 Ni thorrir asgwrn gan air caled Hard words break no bones (“a bone is not broken by a hard word”)

10 torri (wal) i lawr knock down, flatten (a wall)
torri (drws) i lawr break (a door) down

11
torri’ch mudandod break your silence

12 torri pen rhywun run somebody down (behind his back), say mean things about somebody (in their absence)

13 torri ar hwyl rhywun spoil somebody’s fun

14 torri’ch trwyn i ddial ar eich wyneb to cut off your nose to spite your face (“cut off your nose to get-revenge on your face”) seize an opportunity to do something which will harm your rival / adversary / enemy though it causes yourself a great deal of harm too

15 torri’n gymalau dismember

16
cut, reap, mow
torri llafur cut corn   

17 cut down (a tree)
Pan dorrir y deri ar ochr Eryri when the oaks on the slope of Eryri shall be cut down
In making this Road [Nant Francon to Capelcurig], a little beyond Ogwen Lake, the workmen were surprised by an unexpected forest, evidently one of those cut down by Edward I. of whom we are told that it was one of his political acts to cut down the woods in the forests of Snowdon, lest they should give shelter to ambuscades. Trunks of trees have frequently been found in the turbaries in these mountains, and hazels with nuts attached, which ascertains the time of fructification to have been that of destruction. And an intelligent and judicious writer of our own days asserts it to be certain that " the sides of our Snow- donian Alps were once covered with woods." "Pan dòrir y deri ar ochr Eryri,”  being an adage "in every shepherd's mouth on those mountains; and proves that, when those lines were composed, some of the heights of Snowdon were forests of oak."—See Davies's Economy of North Wales, p. 229.

Beaumaris Bay: The Shores of the Menai, and the Interior of Snowdonia; Scenery Unrivalled in its Comprehensive Variety, The Interesting Objects which it includes, and the Sublime Prominence of its Features. Richard Llwyd. 1832
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torri ar draws <TO-ri ar DRAUS>  [ˡtɔrɪ ar ˡdraʊs] (verb)
1
interrupt

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torri i lawr <TO-ri i LAUR>  [ˡtɔrɪ ɪ ˡlaʊr] (verb)
1
break down

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torri lawr = torri i lawr <TO-ri LAUR>  [ˡtɔrɪ ˡlaʊr] (verb)
1
break down

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torri syched <TO-ri SƏ-khed>  [ˡtɔrɪ ˡsəxɛd] (verb)
1
slake one’s thirst

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torrwr <TO-rur>  [ˡtɔrʊr] masculine noun
PLURAL torwyr <TOR-wir>  [ˡtɔrwɪr]
1
(implement, machine) breaker, cutter
torrwr rhew icebreaker
torrwr iâ icebreaker
torrwr crwst pastry cutter

2 person who digs, breaks, cuts, castrates
torrwr beddau (qv) gravedigger
torrwr ceffylau (qv) gelder, castrater of horses
torrwr cerrig (qv) stone breaker, etc

ETYMOLOGY: (torr-, stem of torri = cut, break) + (-wr ‘man’)

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torrwr beddau <TO-rur BEE-dhai, -e>  [ˡtɔrʊr ˡbeˑðaɪ, -ɛ] masculine noun
PLURAL torwyr beddau <TOR-wir BEE-dhai, -e>  [ˡtɔrwɪr ˡ beˑðaɪ, -ɛ]
1
gravedigger

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torrwr ceffylau <TO-rur  ke--lai, -e>  [ˡtɔrʊr kɛˡfəlaɪ, -ɛ] masculine noun
PLURAL torwyr ceffylau <TOR-wir ke--lai, -e>  [ˡtɔrwɪr kɛˡfəlaɪ, -ɛ]
1
gelder = man who castrates horses;
Wiliam Dafis y Torrwr Wiliam Dafis the horse gelder

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torryn <TO-rin>  [ˡtɔrɪn] m
PLURAL torion, torynnau <TOR-yon, to--nai, -e>  [ˡtɔrjɔn, tɔˡrənaɪ, -ɛ]
1 piece of chopped straw
torion chopped straw 

2 (mid-Wales) piece of chaff
torion chaff 

3 cutting of a plant

4 newspaper cutting 

5 excerpt, extract
torion excerpts 

ETYMOLOGY: (torr- stem of the verb torri = cut, break) +(-yn diminutive suffix added to nouns)

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torsyth <TOR-sith>  [ˡtɔrsɪθ] adjective
1
swaggering

ETYMOLOGY: (tor = belly) + (syth = straight)

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torsythu <tor--thi>  [tɔrˡsəθɪ] verb
1
swagger, strut about
2
put on airs, give oneself airs

ETYMOLOGY: (torsyth = swaggering) + (-u suffix for forming verbs)

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torth, torthau <TORTH, TOR-thai, -e>  [tɔrθ, ˡtɔrθaɪ, -ɛ] (feminine noun)
1
loaf of bread
y dorth = the loaf

2 mor sicr â bod bara mewn torth as sure as fate (“as sure as there is bread in a loaf”)

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tortïa <tort-II-a>  [tɔrtˡiˑa] masculine noun
PLURAL tortïas <tort-II-az>  [tɔrtˡiˑaz]
1
tortilla

ETYMOLOGY: English tortilla < Castilian tortilla < torta (= round cake) < Latin tôrta (= loaf)

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tost <TOST>  [tɔst] adjective
1 (North Wales) tôst harsh, severe, hard
dwrdio rhyun yn dôst scold somebody soundly

2 (South Wales) ill, sick, poorly
hala rhywun yn dost make someone poorly

3 (South) painful, sore
Mae pen tost gyda fi I’ve got a headache
Mae gwddwg tost gyda fi I’ve got a sore throat
Mae llwnc tost gyda fi I’ve got a sore throat
Mae bola tost da fi I’ve got stomach ache

4 (South Wales) terrible
cael anap tost have a bad accident

5 (South Wales) (used to intensify an adjective)
Un celwyddog tost yw a He’s a terrible liar, He lies through his teeth

ETYMOLOGY: Possibly Welsh < British < Latin tôstus (= burnt, parched, baked) < torrêre (= dry, parch, scorch, burn, cook). If this etymology is correct, then it is related to English toast (=  to warm (hands, etc); to scorch (bread, etc); to drink the health of) < 1300+ French toster < Latin tôstus)

NOTE: In the north, the vowel in monosyllables with final st is long
tost > tôst

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tosturio <tos-TIR-yo>  [tɔsˡtɪrjɔ] verb
1 feel compassion, feel pity, sympathise

2 tosturio wrth = feel compassion for
tosturio dros = feel compassion for 

ETYMOLOGY: (tostur- < tosturi = compassion, pity) + (-io suffix for forming verbs)


 


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