gwedd

Welsh

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡweːð/
  • Rhymes: -eːð

Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh gweð, from Proto-Brythonic *gweð, from Proto-Celtic *widā, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”).

Noun

gwedd f (plural gweddau)

  1. sight, look, appearance
    Synonyms: edrychiad, golwg, ymddangosiad
  2. shape, form
    Synonyms: ffurf, llun, siâp
  3. manner, mode
    Synonyms: dull, modd
  4. condition
    Synonym: cyflwr
Derived terms
  • agwedd (“attitude”)
  • anwedd (“vapour”)
  • arwedd (“feature”)
  • cadarnwedd (“firmware”)
  • caledwedd (“hardware”)
  • cerfwedd (“relief”)
  • gweddaidd (“becoming, seeply”)
  • gweddol (“fairly well, not bad”)
  • gweddu (“to befit, to suit”)
  • gweddus (“fitting, becoming”)
  • llorwedd (“horizontal”)
  • llunwedd (“form, figure”)
  • maleiswedd (“malware”)
  • meddalwedd (“software”)
  • nodwedd (“feature, characteristic”)
  • pryd a gwedd (“physical appearance”)
  • rhinwedd (“virtue”)
  • tirwedd (“landscape”)
  • unwedd (“identical, the same”)
  • ysbïwedd (“spyware”)

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“bind, secure”). Cognate with Old Irish fedan (“act of carrying”) and English wed.

Noun

gwedd f (plural gweddoedd)

  1. yoke
  2. team (of draught animals)
    gwedd o ychen ― a team of oxen
Derived terms
  • gweddau (“traces, draught harness”)
  • gweddu (“to be yoked”)

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
gwedd wedd ngwedd unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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