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cwningar

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Welsh

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English conynger. ultimately from Vulgar Latin cuningeria (rabbit warren).[1][2][3]

Notes

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The alternative form cwning-gaer is a phono-semantically matched folk etymology as a compound of cwning (rabbits) and caer (fort).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cwningar m (plural cwningaroedd)[4]

  1. rabbit warren[3][4][5]
    • 2009: Gŵyl Gerdded Ynys Môn 2009 (Isle of Anglesey Walking Festival 2009), dydd Iau Mai 28 (Thursday May 28), Taith 20 (Walk 20): “Cwningar Niwbwrch a Gwarchodfa Natur Genedlaethol Ynys Llanddwyn” (“Newborough Warren and Ynys Llanddwyn NNR”)
      Cwningar Niwbwrch a Gwarchodfa Natur Genedlaethol Ynys Llanddwyn yw un o’n systemau twyni tywod mwyaf trawiadol a phwysicaf.
      Newborough Warren & Ynys Llanddwyn National Nature Reserve is one of our most spectacular and important sand dune systems.
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Mutation

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Mutated forms of cwningar
radical soft nasal aspirate
cwningar gwningar nghwningar chwningar

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

References

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  1. ^ Cymmrodorion Record Series (№ 1, volume 2) by the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in London, England (1897; self-published), page 571
      The word cuningeria has been naturalised in Wales, e.g., in Gwningar, near the Newborough rabbit-warren in Anglesey.
  2. ^ Hanes a chyfansoddiadau arobryn Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Môn, Eisteddfod Caergybi, 1907 by Cymdeithas Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Môn (1908; self-published), page 54
      […] a word which occurs so often in Welsh place-names, is derived from Low Latin Cuningeria “ a rabbit warren.”
  3. 3.0 3.1 R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cwninger”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  4. 4.0 4.1 Hippocrene Standard Welsh–English, English–Welsh Dictionary by Davidovic Mladen and Harold Meurig Evans (1993; revised edition; Hippocrene Books; →ISBN, 9780781801362), page 85
  5. ^ Geiriadur Cymraeg–Saesneg a Saesneg–Cymraeg by Thomas Gwynn Jones and Arthur ap Gwynn (1950; Hughes a’i Fab and the Educational Pub. Co.), page 196