hawdd
Welsh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Welsh hawð, from Proto-Brythonic *họð, from Proto-Celtic *sādos (“easy”); compare Cornish hueth (“quiet”),[1] as well as Old Irish asse (“easy”, from *ad-sādo-syos).[2]
The further origin of the Celtic root is uncertain. It was once thought to be from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”),[3] and so cognate to Latin suavis, Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús), and English sweet, but this analysis has both phonological and semantic difficulties.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hawdd (feminine singular hawdd, plural hawdd, equative hawsed or hawdded, comparative haws or hawsach or hawddach, superlative hawsaf or hawddaf, not mutable)
Derived terms
[edit]- hawddfraint (“easement”)
References
[edit]- ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “hawdd”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 318
- ^ Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 148 i 6
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