I started reviving my Welsh on Duolingo.
I went back to Spanish. I saw the Spanish word sofa. Easy-peasy. Would there be similar words in Welsh?
In my languages A5 notebook I kept one page of words which were just learned, in alphabetical order. I started a second page on words which were the same or almost the same in English, so I could look at them last thing at night, instead of counting sheep, counting in another language, or before a bus or train journey, to remember the same and similar words and repeat them to myself.
Then I thought, why am I bothering to compile a list of same words? Just find a list in google using AI, or in Wikipedia, and put it in alphabetical order so I can remember it.
Here is my result
In Welsh
Welsh - English
beic - bike
bont/pont - bridge
caer - castle or fort, for example, Caerleon, which is near Cardiff, Caerphilly, 9 miles north of Cardiff, gives its name to Caerphilly cheese, and Caerphilly castle. Possibly Caerphilly came from Philip's castle, or castle of Philip.
capel - chapel
car - car
castell - castle
croes -cross/crossroad
cwm - combe, a steep, narrow valley
Glynn - Welsh boys' first name, from Glwn - glen/valley/deep valley
melin - mill
Rhil - yr-the+hill
merthyr - martyr (Merthyrtidfil)
tabl - table
tren - train
tref- town/village + fôr / mawr - large (major, think of the English word more) - Trevor
English - Welsh
bike - beic
bridge - bont/pont
car - car
castle - castell
chapel - capel
glen/valley - gwyn/Glynn
grave - bedd
mill - melin
table - tabl
train - tren
Trevor - tref=village+mawr /fôr large
In Spanish
Spanish - English
Useful Websites
translate Google
wikipedia - similar words in Welsh
wikipedia - Welsh Wikipedia
Useful Websites On Welsh Words And Names
https://surnames.behindthename.com/names/usage/welsh
Welsh Placenames
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_toponymy
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