iaith

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh ieith, from Proto-Brythonic *jeiθ, from Proto-Celtic *yextis (compare Breton yezh (“language”), Cornish yeth (“language”), Old Irish icht (“tribe, people”)), from Proto-Indo-European *yek- (compare Latin jocus (“joke”), Old High German jehan (“to admit, to confess”), Tocharian A yask (“to demand, to beg”)). Doublet of jôc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jai̯θ/

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• Rhymes: -ai̯θ

Noun

iaith f (plural ieithoedd or ieithiau or ieithau or ieithydd)

1. language

Derived terms

• amlieithog (“multilingual”)
• bratiaith (“argot, patois”)
• cyfieithu (“to translate”)
• Cymraeg ei iaith (“Welsh-speaking”)
• dwyieithog (“bilingual”)
• gormodiaith (“ exaggeration, hyperbole”)
• gwlad heb iaith, gwlad heb genedl (“a land without a language is a land without a nation”)
• heb iaith, heb genedl (“no language, no nation”)
• heddlu iaith (“ language police”)
• iaith arwyddion (“sign language”)
• iaith glasurol (“classical language”)
• ieithadur (“grammar book”)
• ieithydd (“linguist”)
• llediaith (“bad speech; foreign accent”)
• meta-iaith (“metalanguage”)
• tafodiaith (“dialect”)
• uwchiaith (“metalanguage”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of iaith

radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
iaith	unchanged	unchanged	hiaith

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