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the Oxford English Dictionary says the etymology is "uncertain", but Welsh gwlanen = "flannel wool" is likely. An alternative source is Old French flaine, "blanket". The word has been adopted in most European languages. An earlier English form was flannen, which supports the Welsh etymology.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Welsh on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Welsh in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary (Welsh: Geiriadur yr Academi; sometimes colloquially Geiriadur Bruce, 'Bruce's Dictionary' [1]) is the most comprehensive English– Welsh dictionary ever published. It is the product of many years' work by the editors Bruce Griffiths and Dafydd Glyn Jones. The dictionary was published in 1995, with ...
Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru (GPC) (The University of Wales Dictionary) is the only standard historical dictionary of the Welsh language, aspiring to be "comparable in method and scope to the Oxford English Dictionary". Vocabulary is defined in Welsh, and English equivalents are given. Detailed attention is given to variant forms, collocations ...
Among the top 100 words in the English language, which make up more than 50% of all written English, the average word has more than 15 senses, [134] which makes the odds against a correct translation about 15 to 1 if each sense maps to a different word in the target language. Most common English words have at least two senses, which produces 50 ...
T-glottalization is uncommon but may occur word-finally. [1] H-dropping also often occurs. [1] /tr, dr/ are postalveolar affricates [t̠ɹ̠̊˔, d̠ɹ̠˔], as in RP. [1] Like many other Welsh accents, Port Talbot English is non-rhotic, but when pronounced, /r/ is more often a tap than an approximant . [1] /l/ is always clear . [1]
First and second singular forms may in less formal registers be written as tales and talest, though there is no difference in pronunciation since there is a basic rule of pronunciation that unstressed final syllables alter the pronunciation of the /ai/ diphthong. Word-final -f is rarely heard in Welsh.
In the Welsh language, the term 'Gogs' is slang for 'Gogledd' which translates as 'North' and 'gogs' as 'Northerners'. The Welsh creators of the show - Deiniol Morris, Sion Jones and Michael Mort - decided that the single syllable word 'Gog' had just the right sound and a simple, direct quality which seemed to lend itself well to the primitive nature of the cave family.