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GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · Jun 30

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GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 4h

Word of the Day cysgadur www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Sleeper, lazy and drowsy person or creature, sleepy-head; hibernating animal.

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A picture of a sleeping fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)

GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 1d

Word of the day: CIGFRAN ‘raven’, geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... a bird of prey, considered clever and wise. It often offered advice to poets in prophetic poems, and was one of the three birds (with the heron and eagle) most valued in the ancient laws of Wales.

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GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 2d

Word of the Day: pentan geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... – it means a hob by a fireplace and appears in the title of a humorous story entitled Eos y Pentan by W. J. Griffith of Henllys Fawr near Aberffraw on Anglesey. He died on this date in 1931.

GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 3d

Word of the Day: bochgoch geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html...
An adjective often used to describe a rosy-cheeked, ruddy, and healthy child, and something red-skinned such as an apple. As a noun, this word is also used as another name for the 'egroes' (rose-hip) and the 'pabi coch' (common poppy).

GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 6d

Word of the Day: sgrwmp (heavy shower) geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html...
Another sgrwmp is on its way this weekend. One name for the sudden showers in late summer or early autumn is 'sgrympiau codi tatws', which refers to heavy showers at the time of the potato harvest.

GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 7d

Word of the Day saeth www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Arrow. A loanword from Latin sagitta.

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GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 8d

Word of the day: seiberdrosedd ‘cybercrime’ www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html....

GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 9d

Word of the Day: tafal geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html.... This is one of several Welsh words for a balance or weighing scales. It can also refer to the current sign of the Zodiac, Libra.

GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 10d

Word of the Day aethnen www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Aspen, trembling poplar, Populus tremula

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GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 13d

Word of the Day brithliw www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Mottled, variegated, multi-coloured, dapple, spotted, speckled

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GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 15d

Word of the day: CYFATHREBU 'communicate', geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... : from cyfathr- (as in cyfathrach 'relationship') + -ebu (as in hebu, gohebu 'speak, say', &c.). A vital word today, coined in 1959 by J. E. Caerwyn Williams, one of @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social 's founders

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GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 16d

Word of the Day: tes Mihangel geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html.... Is today’s fine weather the beginning of a period of summery weather usually occurring around Michaelmas, 29th September? ‘Tes bach cyn gaeaf’, which means ‘a little warm weather before winter’, is another name for it.

GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 17d

Word of the day: dŵr llwyd (flood water or spate) geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... As a result of Saturday's torrential rain, this river is in full flow.

GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 20d

Word of the day: gwledd (feast) geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... (in the figurative sense) We have had a feast of academic papers during the Gorwelion conference @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social , with a variety of interesting subjects leaving us with plenty to ponder over.

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GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 21d

Word of the Day dwrn www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Fist, hand, paw; also hilt, handle, haft, pommel or knob (of a door)

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Picture of General Norton Schwartz with his fist in the air

GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 22d

Word of the day: deugain ‘forty’ www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html..., as the ‘Gorwelion’ conference opens to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.

GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 23d

Word of the Day: ERYR geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... - Other than being the Welsh name for an eagle, two figurative meanings for this name is 'arwr' (hero) and 'tywysog' (prince). On this day in 1400, Owain Glyndŵr was proclaimed as Tywysog Cymru, or Prince of Wales.

GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 24d

Word of the day: argoel (sign, indication) geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... It is said that cattle lying down is a sign of rain - it was true in this case! (www.rmets.org/.../do-cows-...)

GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 27d

Word of the day: gwe (web) geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Have you even seen such a scene? We usually see light fine webs made by spiders, however this web is likely to be the work of the caterpillar! The word 'lindyswe' is in the Geiriadur, but its English definition is 'cocoon'.🐛

GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 28d

Word of the day: GORWEL, geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... "horizon".

One of the many successful words coined by William Owen Pughe (c. 1800)

Dewi Emrys's famous couplet can be loosely translated:

An ancient far off line that does not exist,
An ancient boundary that can never be reached.

GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 29d

Word of the day: corn y carw môr geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... ‘rock samphire’, Crithmum maritimum. A nutritious plant that grows in rocky places on the coast. It used to be collected in summer and pickled in brine or vinegar to be taken over the winter. Also called ffenigl y môr 'sea fennel'

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GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · Sep 9

Word of the Day: llyfrwallgof geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html..., llyfr (book)+gwallgof (mad), meaning bibliomania or a biblomaniac, a person who is extremely enthusiastic or 'mad' about reading books and passionate about collecting and owning them. Do you know anybody who might be called llyfrwallgof?

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GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · Sep 8

Word of the day: buddugoliaeth (victory) geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Yesterday's Rali Ceredigion victory celebrations!

GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · Sep 4

Word of the Day creigafr www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... A type of wild goat with recurved horns, rock-goat, alpine goat

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GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · Sep 3

Word of the day: cofbin ‘memory stick, pen drive’ www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html.... One of the new words added recently.