gwyn
Appearance
Cornish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gwyn m
- Alternative form of gwin
Middle Welsh
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Brythonic *gwɨnn, from Proto-Celtic *windos.
Adjective
[edit]gwyn
- white
- c. 1300, Taliesin, The Book of Taliesin, page 29, line 12:
- ...llwdyn gwyn a wnaeth iessu.
- ...a white lamb that has been made by Jesus.
- blessed
- c. 1300, Taliesin, The Book of Taliesin, page 15, lines 24—26:
- Gwyn eu byt wy gymry pan adrodynt, ryn gwarawt y trindawt or trallawt gynt.
- Blessed be the Welsh when they shall say, 'the Trinity delivered us from our former trouble.'
Welsh
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Welsh gwyn, gwynn, from Proto-Brythonic *gwɨnn, from Proto-Celtic *windos.
Adjective
[edit]gwyn (feminine singular gwen, plural gwynion, equative gwynned, comparative gwynnach, superlative gwynnaf)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ɡwɨ̞n/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ɡwɪn/
- Rhymes: -ɨ̞n
Adjective
[edit]gwyn (feminine singular gwen, plural gwynion, equative gwynned, comparative gwynnach, superlative gwynnaf)
Derived terms
[edit]- bore gwyn (“early morning”)
- du a gwyn (“black and white; piebald”)
- gwyn y gwêl y frân ei chyw (“a parent does not see the faults of his or her own child”)
- gwynder (“whiteness”)
- gwyniad (“(a species of fish native to Bala Lake in Wales)”)
- gwynnu (“to whiten”)
- tyngu'r du yn wyn (“to swear black is white”)
- y Berwyn
- y wermod wen (“feverfew”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
---|---|---|---|
gwyn | wyn | ngwyn | unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
See also
[edit]gwyn | llwyd | du |
coch; rhudd | oren, melyngoch; brown | melyn; melynwyn |
melynwyrdd | gwyrdd | |
gwyrddlas; glaswyrdd | asur, gwynlas | glas |
fioled, rhuddlas; indigo | majenta; porffor | pinc, rhuddwyn |
Categories:
- Cornish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Cornish lemmas
- Cornish nouns
- Cornish masculine nouns
- kw:Alcoholic beverages
- kw:Wines
- Middle Welsh terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Middle Welsh terms inherited from Proto-Brythonic
- Middle Welsh terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyd-
- Middle Welsh terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Middle Welsh terms derived from Proto-Brythonic
- Middle Welsh terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Welsh terms inherited from Proto-Brythonic
- Welsh terms derived from Proto-Brythonic
- Welsh terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Welsh terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Middle Welsh lemmas
- Middle Welsh adjectives
- Middle Welsh terms with quotations
- Welsh terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyd-
- Welsh terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Welsh terms inherited from Middle Welsh
- Welsh terms derived from Middle Welsh
- Welsh lemmas
- Welsh adjectives
- Welsh terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Welsh/ɨ̞n
- Rhymes:Welsh/ɨ̞n/1 syllable