rhewfaen

Welsh

Etymology

rhew (“ice”) +‎ maen (“stone”).

Noun

rhewfaen m (countable and uncountable, plural rhewfeini)

  1. (mineralogy) cryolite, Greenland spar

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of rhewfaen
radical soft nasal aspirate
rhewfaen rewfaen unchanged 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), “cryolite”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎[1], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
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