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Mis Hanes LHDT+ 2023 : Gair y Dydd #6 -Anrhywiol

LGBT+ History Month 2023: Word of the day #6 -Asexual

Anrhywiol

(adj. Asexual)

The first currently known use of ‘anrhywiol’ to mean asexual as a sexuality in Welsh comes from the Welsh medical journal Cennad cylchgrawn Y Gymdeithas Feddygol in 1986, which discusses the risk of prostate cancer to various groups. It mentions risk relating to ‘y garfan ddibriod ac anrhywiol’ (the unmarried and asexual cohort) and various clinical trials undertaken during study.

There is one other source for the term asexual in Welsh. The medical journal from 1986 is the earliest known usage of ‘anrhywiol’ as a human sexuality term in Welsh, but it also appears 6 years later in the 1992 edition of the Hippocrene Standard Dictionary – Welsh-English English-Welsh by H. Meurig Evans.

Since then it has seen a steady increase in usage and is being included in more and more Welsh language LGBT+ media.