stŵr
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sduːr/, [stuːr]
- Rhymes: -uːr
Noun
stŵr m (usually uncountable, plural styrau, not mutable)
- commotion, uproar, fuss, row
- telling off, rebuke
- Synonyms: cerydd, dwrdiad
- Ces i stŵr.
- I was told off.
- (literally, “I had a telling off.”)
Derived terms
- gwneud stŵr, codi stŵr, stwrio (“raise a commotion”)
- stwrllyd (“turbulent”)
Further reading
- Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “commotion”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary[1], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
- Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “noise”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary[2], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
- D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “stŵr”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “stŵr”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies