gwlydd
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Welsh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Brythonic *gwlid-.[1] Cognate with Welsh gwledd (“banquet”).
Adjective
[edit]gwlydd (feminine singular gwlydd, plural gwlydd, equative gwlydded, comparative gwlyddach, superlative gwlyddaf)
Antonyms
[edit]- diwlydd (“rough, hard, harsh”)
Noun
[edit]gwlydd m (collective, singulative gwlyddyn)
- (especially soft) stalks, stems, haulm, kex
- chickweed (Cerastium and Stellaria)
- weeds
- Synonym: chwyn
Derived terms
[edit]- gwlydd blewog, gwlydd pen y tŷ (“mouse-ear chickweed”)
- gwlydd cyffredin, gwlydd (y) cywion, gwyldd (y) dom, gwlydd (yr) ieir (“common chickweed”)
- gwlydd garw, gwlydd y perthi (“goosegrass, sticky willy”)
- gwlydd gronynnog (“berry catchfly”)
- gwlydd llysi (“whortleberry bush”)
- gwlydd Mair (“scarlet pimpernel; burnet saxifrage”)
- gwlydd (py)tatw(s), gwlydd tato (“stalks of potato plants”)
- gwlydd (y) dŵr, gwlydd (y) ffynhonnau (“water chickweed”)
- gwlydd (y) geifr (“sea campion, goat's weed”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
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gwlydd | wlydd | ngwlydd | unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.