hebog

From Old Welsh hebauc, from Old English heafoc (“hawk”). Cognate with Irish seabhac, Manx shawk and Scottish Gaelic seabhag. Doublet of caeth (“captured”) and pregeth (“sermon”)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛbɔɡ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈheːbɔɡ/, /ˈhɛbɔɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɛbɔɡ

hebog m (plural hebogiaid or hebogau or hebogion, feminine heboges, not mutable)

1. hawk, falcon

   Synonym: gwalch

• hebog chwerthinog (“laughing falcon”)
• hebog ystlum (“bat falcon”)
• heboca (“to hawk”)
• heboglys, llysiau'r hebog, llys y hebog (“hawkweed”)
• hebogydd (“hawker”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “hebog”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies