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Adjective comparison in Welsh is fairly similar to the English system except that there is an additional degree, the equative (Welsh y radd gyfartal). Native adjectives with one or two syllables usually receive the endings -ed "as/so" (preceded by the word cyn in a sentence, which causes a soft mutation except with ll and rh : cyn/mor daled â ...
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.
Welsh grammar reflects the patterns of linguistic structure that permeate the use of the Welsh language. In linguistics grammar refers to the domains of the syntax , and morphology . The following articles contain more information on Welsh:
The list of standardised Welsh place-names is a list compiled by the Welsh Language Commissioner to recommend the standardisation of the spelling of Welsh place-names, particularly in the Welsh language and when multiple forms are used, although some place-names in English were also recommended to be matched with the Welsh.
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.
CorCenCC extends to 11 million words of naturally occurring Welsh language (note: the version of the corpus available on the CorCenCC website reports results in tokens rather than words). The creation of CorCenCC was a community-driven project, which offered users of Welsh an opportunity to contribute to a Welsh language resource that reflects ...
These are the words widely used by Welsh English speakers, with little or no Welsh, and are used with original spelling (largely used in Wales but less often by others when referring to Wales): afon river awdl ode bach literally "small", a term of affection cromlech defined at esoteric/specialist terms section above cwm a valley crwth
The soft mutation (Welsh: treiglad meddal) is by far the most common mutation in Welsh. When words undergo soft mutation, the general pattern is that unvoiced plosives become voiced plosives, and voiced plosives become fricatives or disappear; some fricatives also change, and the full list is shown in the above table.