paladr

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷalatros (compare Old Irish celtair (“spear, spear tip”)).

Noun

paladr m (plural pelydr)

1. shaft (of spear, bone, column, chimney)
2. (literary) stem (of plant, flower, fruit, etc.)

   Synonyms: coes, coesyn, coesen

3. (architecture) trunk

   Synonym: boncyff

4. (history, religion) upright of cross
5. beam, ray

Derived terms

• dibaladr (“shaftless, lacking a rod or shaft”)
• helyglys paladr pedrongl (“square-stalked willowherb”)
• hesg paladr triochrog (“false fox-sedge”)
• paladr blodeuwyrdd (“frog orchid”)
• paladr trwyddo (“ hare's ear, hound's ear, thorow-wax”)
• paladr y wal, paladr y pared (“spreading pellitory, wall pellitory”)
• pelydryn (“ray of light”)
• ymbelydredd (“radiation”)

Compounds

• ceiniog baladr f (“a fine under medieval Welsh law levied on related male landowners when the immediate kin of a murderer proved incapable of paying galanas”, literally “spear penny”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of paladr

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
paladr	baladr	mhaladr	phaladr

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

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “paladr”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies