gwedd
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡweːð/
- Rhymes: -eːð
Etymology 1
From Middle Welsh gweð, from Proto-Brythonic *gweð, from Proto-Celtic *widā, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”).
Noun
gwedd f (plural gweddau)
- sight, look, appearance
- Synonyms: edrychiad, golwg, ymddangosiad
- shape, form
- Synonyms: ffurf, llun, siâp
- manner, mode
- Synonyms: dull, modd
- condition
- Synonym: cyflwr
Derived terms
- agwedd (“attitude”)
- anwedd (“vapour”)
- arwedd (“feature”)
- cadarnwedd (“firmware”)
- caledwedd (“hardware”)
- cerfwedd (“relief”)
- gweddaidd (“becoming, seeply”)
- gweddol (“fairly well, not bad”)
- gweddus (“fitting, becoming”)
- gweddu (“to befit, to suit”)
- llorwedd (“horizontal”)
- llunwedd (“form, figure”)
- maleiswedd (“malware”)
- meddalwedd (“software”)
- nodwedd (“feature, characteristic”)
- pryd a gwedd (“physical appearance”)
- rhinwedd (“virtue”)
- tirwedd (“landscape”)
- unwedd (“identical, the same”)
- ysbïwedd (“spyware”)
Etymology 2
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“bind, secure”). Cognate with Old Irish fedan (“act of carrying”)
Noun
gwedd f (plural gweddoedd)
- yoke
- team (of draught animals)
- gwedd o ychen ― a team of oxen
Derived terms
- gweddau (“traces, draught harness”)
- gweddu (“to be yoked”)
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| gwedd | wedd | ngwedd | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||