cegid
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈkɛɡɪd/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈkeːɡɪd/, /ˈkɛɡɪd/
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) From the same source as cecys (“kex, hollow stalks”) Cornish kegis, English kex and Latin cicūta (“hemlock”).[1]
Noun
cegid (plural, singular cegiden f)
- hemlock,[2] (Conium spp.), especially poison hemlock (Conium maculatum)
Alternative forms
- cegyr
Synonyms
Derived terms
- cawod goch cegid (“cowbane rust”)
- cegid cyffredin, (Middle Welsh) tost y gegid (“common hemlock”)
- cegid dail persli (“parsley water-dropwort”)
- cegid fenyw (“cow parsley”)
- cegid meinddail (“narrow-leaved water-dropwort”)
- cegid Mynwy (“corky-fruited water-dropwort”)
- cegid pêr/perion, cegid gwyn(ion) (“sweet cicely”)
- cegid pibellaidd (“tubular water-dropwort”)
- cegid pumbys (“water hemlock, cowbane”)
- cegid y dŵr (“hemlock water-dropwort; water hemlock, cowbane”)
- cegid yr afon (“river water-dropwort”)
- cegidaidd (“relating to hemlock”)
- cegidog (“abounding in hemlock”)
- cegidwydd (“hemlock spruces”)
Etymology 2
Alteration of Middle Welsh kegin (“woodpecker; jay”).[3]
Noun
cegid f (plural cegidau)
- woodpecker (Picidae spp.), notably:
- green woodpecker (Picus viridis)[3]
- Synonym: cnocell y coed
- great spotted woodpecker, witwall (Dendrocopos major)[3][4]
- Synonyms: cnocell fraith fwyaf, pioden y coed
- green woodpecker (Picus viridis)[3]
- Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)[3]
- Synonym: sgrech y coed
- European greenfinch (Chloris chloris)[4]
- Synonym: llinos werdd
Derived terms
- y gegid fechan (“cuckoo”)
- cegid fraith (“spotted woodpecker”)
Mutation
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
|---|---|---|---|
| cegid | gegid | nghegid | chegid |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Siegfried, Miscellanea Celtica, p. 32
- ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “cegid”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “cegid”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Cymdeithas Edward Llwyd (2006), “Y Bywiadur”, in Llên natur[1], retrieved 1 August 2024