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Hiraeth (Welsh pronunciation: [hɪraɨ̯θ, hiːrai̯θ] [1]) is a Welsh word that has no direct English translation. The University of Wales, Lampeter, likens it to a homesickness tinged with grief and sadness over the lost or departed, especially in the context of Wales and Welsh culture. [2]
Cwtch (Welsh pronunciation:) is a Welsh-language and Welsh-English dialect word meaning a cuddle or embrace, with a sense of offering warmth and safety. Often considered untranslatable, the word originated as a colloquialism in South Wales, but is today seen as uniquely representative of Wales, Welsh national identity, and Welsh culture.
In Dutch, the alternative word for penguin is "fat-goose" (vetgans see: Dutch wiki or dictionaries under Pinguïn), and would indicate this bird received its name from its appearance. Mither An English word possibly from the Welsh word "moedro" meaning to bother or pester someone. Possible links to the Yorkshire variant "moither"
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"The Wave" is a poem expressing Gruffudd's homesickness as, on board a ship in a Spanish harbour, he awaits favourable weather for his return journey. [8] It is also a cywydd llatai , a love poem in which a non-human messenger is sent to the beloved, [ 9 ] in this case one of the massive North Atlantic billows for which the Bay of Biscay is known.
During the late Oligocene and early Miocene—some 30 million years before the primate Homo sapiens trekked across the Bering strait—North America was home to only one known primate ...
Man dubbed 'the Welsh Captain Tom' dies aged 95. Eben Leonard - BBC News. January 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM. ... "He was a remarkable man, he was the cornerstone of the family, he was the cornerstone of ...
The syntax of the Welsh language has much in common with the syntax of other Insular Celtic languages.It is, for example, heavily right-branching (including a verb–subject–object word order), and the verb for be (in Welsh, bod) is crucial to constructing many different types of clauses.