crwydr
Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *kruɨdr, from Proto-Celtic *krētros (“sieve”).
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /krʊɨ̯dr/, [ˈkrʰʊɨ̯dr̩]
- (South Wales) (standard) IPA(key): /krʊi̯dr/, [ˈkrʰʊi̯dr̩]
- (South Wales) (colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈkrʊi̯dɪr/
Noun
crwydr m (plural crwydrau)
- a wandering, roving, roaming
- a sieve, winnowing-fan
Derived terms
- crwydrad (“wandering, errant, vagrant, straying”)
- crwydredig (“wandering, vagrant, roving; stray; tramped by vagabonds”)
- crwydro (“to wander, roam, stroll, gad about; to spend to no purpose; to stray, go astray, err, deviate; to digress”)
- crwydrol (“wandering, vagrant, roving, nomadic, migratory; erring”)
- crwydrus (“wandering, vagrant, vagabond, roaming; erring, loose, profligate; poor, needy”)
- crwydrwr m (“wanderer, vagrant, vagabond, rover, nomad; one who has erred or gone astray”)
- crwydryn m, crwydren f (“wanderer, vagrant, vagabond, tramp, straggler”)
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| crwydr | grwydr | nghrwydr | chrwydr |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- Angharad Fychan and Ann Parry Owen, editors (2014), “crwydr”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies