adar cloch

Welsh

Etymology

Calque of English bellbirds.

Noun

adar cloch (plural, singular aderyn cloch m)

  1. bellbirds (Procnias spp.)
  2. miners (Manorina spp.)

Derived terms

Procnias
  • adar cloch barfog (“bearded bellbirds”)
  • adar cloch gwynion (“white bellbirds”)
  • adar cloch gyddf-foel (“bare-throated bellbirds”)
  • adar cloch Seland Newydd (“New Zealand bellbirds”)
  • adar cloch tair tagell (“three-wattled bellbirds”)
Manorina
  • adar cloch Awstralia (“bell miners”)
  • adar cloch gyddf-felyn (“yellow-throated miners”)
  • adar cloch swnllyd (“noisy miners”)

Usage notes

Not used for birds of genus Geositta, also called miners in English. For birds of this genus, see mwynwr.

Mutation

Mutated forms of adar cloch
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
adar cloch unchanged unchanged hadar cloch

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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