Quick And Easy Welsh Words You'll Love To Learn - 24 words

 

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

bedd - grave (a bed for the dead)

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

coffi - coffee

croes - cross/crossroad

cwm - combe, a steep, narrow valley

Glynn - Welsh boys' first name, from Glwn - glen/valley/deep valley

helo - hello (older spelling hallo)

mam - mother

mawr - large (more of it)

melin - mill

Rhil - yr-the+hill

merthyr - martyr (Merthyrtidfil)

siop - shop

siop goffi - coffee shop

soffa - sofa

tabl - table

tad - dad/father

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/caer

chapel - capel

coffee - coffi

coffee shop - siop goffi

dad/father - tad

glen/valley - gwyn/Glynn

grave - bedd

hello (older spelling hallo) - helo

mother - mam

mill - melin

shop - siop

sofa - soffa

table - tabl

train - trên

Trevor - tref=village+mawr  /fôr large

In Spanish

Spanish - English

sofa - sofa

tren - train

English - Spanish

sofa - sofa

train - tren

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

Souvenirs of Wales

https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/landofmyfathers

See more about Wales in my previous posts

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2022/02/prepare-to-celebrate-st-davids-day.html

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2021/04/welsh-words-on-stations-and-buildings.html

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