gwyn
Cornish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɡwiːn]
Noun
gwyn m
- alternative form of gwin
Middle Welsh
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Brythonic *gwɨnn, from Proto-Celtic *windos.
Adjective
gwyn
- white
- c. 1300, Taliesin, The Book of Taliesin, page 29, line 12:
- ...llwdyn gwyn a wnaeth iessu.
- ...a white lamb that has been made by Jesus.
- blessed
- c. 1300, Taliesin, The Book of Taliesin, page 15, lines 24–26:
- Gwyn eu byt wy gymry pan adrodynt, ryn gwarawt y trindawt or trallawt gynt.
- Blessed be the Welsh when they shall say, 'the Trinity delivered us from our former trouble.'
Welsh
Alternative forms
- gwỳn, gwynn (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle Welsh gwyn, gwynn, from Proto-Brythonic *gwɨnn, from Proto-Celtic *windos.
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ɡwɨ̞n/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ɡwɪn/
- Rhymes: -ɨ̞n
Adjective
gwyn (feminine singular gwen, plural gwynion, equative gwynned, comparative gwynnach, superlative gwynnaf)
Derived terms
- bore gwyn (“early morning”)
- du a gwyn (“black and white; piebald”)
- gwyn y gwêl y frân ei chyw (“a parent does not see the faults of his or her own child”)
- gwynder (“whiteness”)
- gwyniad (“(a species of fish native to Bala Lake in Wales)”)
- gwynnu (“to whiten”)
- tyngu'r du yn wyn (“to swear black is white”)
- y Berwyn
- y wermod wen (“feverfew”)
See also
| gwyn | llwyd | du |
| coch; rhudd | oren, melyngoch; brown | melyn; melynwyn |
| melynwyrdd | gwyrdd | |
| gwyrddlas; glaswyrdd | asur, gwynlas | glas |
| fioled, rhuddlas; indigo | majenta; porffor | pinc, rhuddwyn |