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Vocabulary

Geirfa (ar hap): Random vocabulary I've picked up this week.

hap -> random (n) artaith -> torture (verb, noun) gwaddoli -> to endow (v)

Cyfeirio [at rhwybeth] -> to address something, to refer [to smth] (v) Cyfeiriad -> a reference/referral, direction (n) Cyfeilio -> to accompany (musically or otherwise) (v) Cyfeiliant -> accompaniment, backing (n) Cynnau -> to light, ignite, switch on (v)

Coch -> red Cwch -> a boat, raft, etc. (n) Cwch (/cychod) gwenyn -> beehive(s). Cute that a hive is basically a boat for bees!

llond -> -full/filled (adj) yr holl -> all (of something) (adj)

bwydlen -> menu (literally 'food sheet') llen -> sheet (in the sense of paper, a curtain, ice, etc.) (n)

dychmygu -> to imagine (v) credu/coelio -> to believe (v) teimlo -> to feel (v) enaid -> a soul (n) rhyddid -> freedom (n)

bloedd(iaudau) -> a shout, whoop bloeddio -> to shout

hyn a hyn -> from time to time/now and again

yn barod -> already

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Welsh Vocab 1 - Geirfa Cymraeg 1

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Before I start, I would like to specify that all these posts are in a South Wales dialect of Welsh.

The Welsh Alphabet - Y Wyddor Cymraeg

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a, b, c, ch, d, dd, e, f, ff, g, ng, h, i, j, l, ll, m, n, o, p, r, rh, s, t, th, u, w, y

Greetings - Cyfarchion

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Shwmae/Helô - Hello

Bore da - Good morning

Prynhawn da - Good afternoon

Noswaith dda - Good evening

Nos da - Good night

Sut wyt ti? / Sut dych chi? - How are you? (Note - "ti" is the informal & singular you, "chi" is the formal & plural you)

Croeso - Welcome

Hwyl/Hwyl fawr - Goodbye

Pronoun sentence starters

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Dw i'n - I am

Rwyt ti'n - you are (Informal/singular)

Mae e'n - he is

Mae hi'n - she is

Mae nhw'n - they are

Rydych chi'n - you are (Formal/plural)

Dyn ni'n - we are

(Rydych chi'n can be shortened to dych chi'n, Rwyt ti'n often becomes just ti'n. Dw i'n is technically Rydw i'n but is often shortened)

Days of the week - Dyddiad yr Wythnos

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Dydd Llun - Monday

Dydd Mawrth - Tuesday

Dydd Mercher - Wednesday

Dydd Iau - Thursday

Dydd Gwener - Friday

Dydd Sadwrn - Saturday

Dydd Sul - Sunday

for nights, "nos" would replace "dydd", so Monday night would be Nos Llun. (This mutates for Gwener - i.e. Nos Wener rather than Nos Gwener)

Months - Mis

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Ionawr - January

Chwefror - February

Mawrth - March

Ebrill - April

Mai - May

Mehefin - June

Gorffenaf - July

Awst - August

Medi - September

Hydref - October

Tachwedd - November

Rhagfyr - December

(Mawrth being March and Dydd Mawrth being Tuesday is I think because Mawrth is also the word for Mars, as in the planet. So the month and the day are named for the planet.)

Other Essentials

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Diolch - Thank you

Plîs / os gwelwch yn dda - Please (Os gwelwch yn dda literally translates to "if you see fit", so it's more of an "if you please" and is a more polite/formal version.)

Diolch yn fawr - Thank you very much (Literally "big thank you")

Esgusodwch fi - Excuse me

Mae'n flin da fi - Sorry (Fully - mae'n flin gyda fi, literally - Sorry is with me, however "flin" on its own does not really translate to sorry)

Weather - Y Tywydd

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The weather is feminine so "it is" for weather is usually "mae hi'n", but this can be shortened to "mae'n".

Mae'n.... - It is....

.... bwrw glaw/eira/cesau - .... raining/snowing/hailing

.... heulog - .... sunny

.... braf - .... fine

.... stormus - .... stormy

.... wyntog - .... windy

.... gymylog - .... cloudy (Gymylog is the mutated form of Cymylog - it mutates because mae hi'n is feminine)

.... oer - .... cold

.... boeth - .... hot

Heddiw means today, so "it is sunny today" would be "Mae'n heulog heddiw)

That's all for this post, I'm not listing vocabulary in any particular order, I am quite literally just dumping vocab off the top of my head until the post seems long enough. There are nuances and exceptions that I don't really know how to convey in some circumstances, because to me they seem natural since to some extent as I was raised surrounded by the Welsh language. These posts weren't intended for people to learn Welsh from, but if you're already learning and have other resources for grammar, mutations, pronunciation, etc. these may be helpful. Anyway, unnecessarily long disclaimer over.

[guillemelgat]

Solomon a Gaenor (1999)

1h40m | Welsh, Yiddish, & English

Y wythnos diwetha', nes i weld y ffilm 'ma. Mae hi'n am Solomon Levinsky, sy'n dod i'r Cymoedd De Cymru o Rwsia efo'i deulu, a Gaenor Rees, sy wedi byw yna ei holl fywyd. Mae Solomon a'i deulu'n Iddewon Uniongred, a mae Gaenor yn dod o deulu Anghydffurfiol, ond mae'r dau'n disgyn mewn cariad. Mae'r stori'n dipyn bach fel Romeo a Juliet, ond mae hi'n wahanol hefyd—mae'r cymeriadau'n mwy cymhleth, yn fy marn i, ac yn y diwedd o'n i ddim yn siwr beth i feddwl amdanyn nhw. Er hynny, mae'r hanes yn ddiddorol iawn, a mae'r ffilm yn sôn am y streiciau yn y Cymoedd ac am hanes Iddewig yng Nghmyru. Mae'r sinematograffi'n wych, ac o'n i'n licio'r trac sain hefyd, ond dwi'n dal i drio penderfynu am y plot. Rhaid i chi'w gweld a deud beth ydach chi'n meddwl!

Last week, I watched this film. It's about Solomon Levinsky, who comes to the South Wales Valleys from Russia with his family, and Gaenor Rees, who's lived there all her life. Solomon and his family are Orthodox Jews, and Gaenor is from a Noncomformist family, but the two fall in love. The story is a bit like Romeo and Juliet, but it's different too—the characters are more complex, in my opinion, and at the end I wasn't sure what to think about them. The history was really interesting, though, and the film talks about the strikes in the Valleys and about Jewish history in Wales. The cinematography is great, and I liked the soundtrack as well, but I'm still trying to decide about the plot. You have to watch it and tell me what you think!

Geirfa - Vocabulary

(Note: The movie is set in South Wales, so some of these are Southern Welsh variants)

swllt - shilling cefn gwlad - countryside cenhadwr - missionary perthyn i - belong to, be related to pai' bod yn ddwl - don’t be silly rhywpryd eto - another time tost - sick moddion - medicine damwain - accident twymo - to heat up darn - passage tlawd - poor cwlwm - knot siort - type pobi - to back carthu - to clean bod mas o gyrraedd - out of reach of, past main - fine cyhuddiad - charge, accusation dieithryn - outsider cosb - punishment disgwyl babi/plentyn - to be expecting a child, to be with child cywilydd - shame bradychu - to betray gwlân - wool sodli - heel gweddi - prayer rheol - rule haearn - iron lliain - towel pyped - puppet dere ymlaen - come on, let’s go carchar - prison cyfeiriad - address gwau - to knit

Os ti isio gweld y ffilm, mae hi ar Youtube // If you want to watch the movie, it's on Youtube:

Fersiwn Gymraeg (heb isdeitlau/isdeitlau i'r Iddew-Almaeneg yn Gymraeg) / Version in Welsh (no subtitles/subtitles for the Yiddish in Welsh)

Fersiwn Saesneg (y rhan amla' yn Saesneg efo rhannau yn Gymraeg a Iddew-Almaeneg/isdeitlau i'r holl ffilm) / Version in English (mostly English with parts in Welsh and Yiddish/subtitles for the whole film)

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Basic Welsh vocabulary: People, Age & Gender

Baby: baban (-od) (m)

Child: plentyn (plant) (m)

Adult: oedolyn (oedolion) (m)

These are mostly straightforward, but note that plentyn is a singulative: the base form, plant, is a collective (already plural).

Person: person (m) (pobl (f))

Pobl is the normal word for talking about more than one person, but it’s more than an irregular plural - it’s a different word. Therefore, person is singular masculine and pobl is singular feminine. There is a regular plural as well, personau, but it sounds formal/legal, like “persons” in english. Personiaid actually means parsons (priests). Pobl can also be pluralised: pobloedd, peoples.

From here on things will get complicated, with lots of different dialect forms. As a beginner, I’m not trying to memorise all this information, but this is basic vocabulary, so being able to recognise it in a variety of dialects is very useful. The following words’ genders can all be inferred from their meaning (with one exception), so I’ve left out them to avoid visual clutter.

Man: 

dyn (dynion)

bachan (no pl) (inf)

Dyn is the standard word for man across dialects. Bachan is an informal South Welsh word derived from bachgen (boy), used similarly to guy/lad. There’s also gŵr (gwŷr) and its feminine counterpart gwraig (gwragedd), but these are mostly used to mean husband and wife.

Woman: 

dynes (-au) N

menyw (-od) S

benyw (-od) S

Boy: 

bachgen (bechgyn) S, NE

hogyn (hogiau) NW

crwt (cryts) S

Girl: 

merch (-ed) S

hogan (gennod) NW

geneth (-od) N

The word merch can mean girl, daughter or woman. Hogan is the female counterpart to hogyn, but for some mysterious reason it’s grammatically masculine. Other words for boy also have female counterparts that are grammatically feminine (bachgennes, croten) but as far as I can tell these are much less commonly used.

Sources: Duolingo notes; Geiriadur Bangor; Wiktionary

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Pasg Hapus i Bawb! / Happy Easter to Everyone!

Here's just a dash of Welsh Easter vocab, some religious and some secular! :)

Pasg / Easter

Sul y Pasg / Easter Sunday

Llun y Pasg / Easter Monday

Dydd Gwener y Groglith (or just y Groglith) / Good Friday

Sul y Blodau / Palm Sunday (literally Sunday of Flowers)

Y Grawys / Lent

Iesu Grist / Jesus Christ

croes / cross

atgyfodiad / resurrection

ŵy Pasg / Easter egg

Cwningen y Pasg / Easter bunny

cwningen / rabbit, bunny

cyw / chick(en)

Happy Easter to everyone, whether you're celebrating the resurrection of Christ or just getting some chocolate!

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Geirfa

Solar System Cysawd yr Haul Sol yr Haul Mercury Mercher Venus Gwener Earth y Ddaear Luna y Lleuad moon (general term) lleuad (term cyhoeddus) Mars Mawrth Jupiter Iau Saturn Sadwrn Uranus Wranws Neptune Neifion Pluto Plwton

planet blaned asteroid asteroid comet comed

[chaotic-hypnotic-erotic]

cwmwl

Welsh

cwmwl cloud

Daeth i gartref neithiwr, ac nid oedd cwmwl yn yr awyr I came home last night, and there was not a cloud in the sky

[daily-klingon]

Geirfa

Hov seren (n)

bej gwylio (v)

paw cyrraedd (v)

Sanmaj ein tynged (enw)

[oops-ibrokereality]

Dw'i Di dod ir penderfyniad bod angen I mi just siarad yn wenglish. I've had enough o ceisio dargganfod Yr gerirau 'perffaith' am beth dw'i eisiau dweud ac nawr mae'n amser I just siarad. Does ddim ots sut mor dda mae fy iaith. A dw'i'n dros becso am sut mae pawb arall yn gweld fy sgiliau cymraeg. Mae fy iaith wedi dyriwio dros y blynyddoedd diwethef a dw'i di cael llon bol o colli e. Now is the amser I siarad, s'ddim ots faint mor shit, does ddim ots faint o gerirau saesneg dw'i'n ddefnyddio. Fuck treigladau I'm just gonna throw them in wherever. Bydd just siarad Yr iaeth mynd I gwthio fi I ail-ddysgu'r terminoleg cywir.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Ti'n Cymraeg hefyd? Neis! Ond mae'n rhaid i fi anghytuno yn fawr iawn am y "Gogs are backwards" peth. 😃

Ie wel BYDDET TI, ond dyw'r geirfa ddim yn celwydda. Be sy'r gair am 'now', Gogs? BE' SY'R GAIR.

[meddwlyngymraeg]

Vocabulary

Geirfa Adeiliad (The vocab of buildings). Not exhaustive, wrth gwrs.

adeiladu - to build chwalu - to demolish

cynllunio - to plan (v) cynllun(iau) - plan(s) (n)

dyluniad - design (n) dylunio - to design (v)

strwythur - structure (n)

disgrifio - to describe

chwyldroadol - revolutionary (adj)

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LGBT Terminology/Dictionaries in Minoritized Languages

I was asked by @portugue for some dictionaries/terminology lists in different languages, but I realized when I checked that I actually only have them for 2 of the languages I study. If people have more minoritized language resources for LGBTQIA+ terminology, please add them on here! Let’s try to get as many as we can.

TERMCAT - Diccionari LGBT (Catalan): https://www.termcat.cat/ca/diccionaris-en-linia/256

Stonewall Cymru - Geirfa (Welsh): https://www.stonewallcymru.org.uk/cy/cymorth-chyngor/geirfa -UPDATE: This Google doc has corrections/improvements on the Stonewall Cymru list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bE8oVmZEhl6Wxqk6EEiEkv8z5xxq-cyQYjjigQPYKO0/edit

An Foclóir Aiteach (Irish): https://usi.ie/focloir-aiteach/

Celtic Students Blog - LGBTQ Terminology in the Celtic Languages (Welsh, Cornish, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Manx, Breton): https://celticstudents.blogspot.com/2021/02/lgbtq-terminology-in-celtic-languages.html?m=1

Geidh.uk - Briathrachas LGDTCE+ (Scottish Gaelic): https://geidh.uk/briathrachas-lcdt/

(Last edited: 6/8/21)

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Telling the time in Welsh

Faint o'r gloch ydy hi? - What time is it?

Mae hi'n... - It is...

hanner dydd - midday/noon

hanner nos - midnight

un o'r gloch - one o'clock

ddeg o’r gloch - ten o’ clock

un ar ddeg o'r gloch - eleven o'clock

ddeuddeg o'r gloch - twelve o'clock

bum munud i... - five to...

ddeg munud wedi... - ten past...

chwarter i... - quarter to...

ugain munud wedi... - twenty past...

bum munud ar hugain i... - twenty-five to...

hanner awr wedi... - half past...

Examples:

Mae hi'n chwarter i dri. It's quarter to three.

Mae'r bws yn mynd am ddeg munud i bedwar. The bus goes at ten to four.

Mae hi'n gweithio tan hanner awr wedi deuddeg. She's working until half past twelve.

Dw i'n mynd i'r gwely am bum munud ar hugain wedi un ar ddeg. I'm going to bed at twenty-five past eleven.

Note that while "o'r gloch" superficially resembles "o'clock", it actually means "of the bell". The Welsh for clock is cloc.

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Misoedd Y Flwyddyn / Months of the Year

Ionawr / January

Chwefror / February

Mawrth / March

Ebrill / April

Mai / May

Mehefin / June

Gorffennaf / July

Awst / August

Medi / September

Hydref / October

Tachwedd / November

Rhagfyr / December

to specify "the month of", use mis, as in mis Rhagfyr (the month of December)

to specify "in the month of", use ym mis, as in ym mis Hydref (in the month of October)