cnwc

Welsh

FWOTD – 16 July 2024

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knʊk/

Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh cnwcc, cynwck, cnwc, from Middle English knok (“strike, hit”), whence English knock. Doublet of cnoc.

Alternative forms

• cnwck (obsolete)

Noun

cnwc m (plural cnyciau)

1. a knock, hit, blow, stroke, lash, strike

Etymology 2

From Old Irish cnocc (“hill, lump, ulcer”).

Alternative forms

• cwnwg
• cnwcc, cnwch, knwk (obsolete)

Noun

cnwc m (plural cnyciau, diminutive cnwcyn or cnycyn)

1. an elevation of land, a hillock, hummock, knoll, mound, tump
2. a lump, protuberance
   1. (in or on a person’s body) a swelling, hump, abscess, tumour
   2. (in the wood of a tree) a knob, knot
3. (crystallography) a summit (each of the two vertices of a rhombohedral crystal having equangular faces)
   • 1858, Daniel Silvan Evans, An English and Welsh dictionary, adapted to the present state of science and literature; in which the English words are deduced from their originals, and explained by their synonyms, in the Welsh language., volume II: H–Z (overall work in English and Welsh), Denbigh · London: Thomas Gee · Simpkin & Marshall, page 790/2, s.v. “Sexdecimal, a.”:

     Sexdecimal, a. (Ll. sex a decem) âg iddo 6 wyneb a dau gwnwg; âg iddo ddeg wyneb.

     Sexdecimal, a. (L. sex and decem) having 6 faces and two summits; having ten faces.

Derived terms

• cnwc y gwegil m (“nape, occiput”)
• Cnwclas m
• Cnwcmelyn m
• Cnwcybarcut m
• Cnwcylili m
• Cnwcyn m
• cnyciau a phantiau m pl (“peaks and troughs”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of cnwc

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cnwc	gnwc	nghnwc	chnwc

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cnwc”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies