gwas allor

Welsh

Noun

gwas allor m or f by sense (plural gweision allor)

  1. (Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism) altar server, altar boy
    Synonym: allorwas
    • 2002 April 14, Aled Edward, “Rhywbeth pwysicach na throed Beckham [Something more important than Beckham's foot]”, in BBC Cymru'r Byd‎[1]:
      Wrth gerdded yn osgeiddig ac mewn llawn rhwysg o’r festri i’r capel priodol, mentrais darfu ar drefn filwrol y gwas allor druan.
      Walking gracefully and with full pomp from the vestry to the proper chapel, I ventured to disrupt the military order of the poor altar server.

Mutation

Mutated forms of gwas allor
radical soft nasal aspirate
gwas allor was allor ngwas allor unchanged

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

Further reading

  • Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “altar”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎[2], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
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