Largely C&Ping this from an earlier post of mine…
So the last time I encountered someone explaining the word in English, in a fashion that was definitely wrong, I went looking for examples of it in the wild, to make sure my understanding of it was correct.
I went to Golwg Magazine, a news magazine that I used heavily to practice, when I was first learning the language myself. I picked Golwg rather than, like, BBC Cymru Fyw, specifically because it’s not government. It also, according the Wikipedia, has “the largest circulation of any magazine in Wales.”
Here were the first few examples I found of the word being used (as a noun, and used rather than mentioned):
Mae hyn yn agoriad llygad i Washington na fyddai’r frwydr yn erbyn y coronafeirws yn cael ei hennill yn gyflym, er i Donald Trump fynegi ei hiraeth am normalrwydd.
[ This is an eye-opener for Washington, that the battle for the coronavirus would not be won quickly, though Donald Trump expressed his <hiraeth> for normalcy. ]
Mae Matthew Rhys hefyd yn sôn am yr hiraeth sydd ganddo am Gymru, gan iddo adael ei gartref yng Nghaerdydd pan oedd yn 18 oed er mwyn mynd i astudio drama yn Llundain.
[ Matthew Rhys also talks about the <hiraeth> that he has about Wales, with his leaving his home in Cardiff when he was 18 years old to go study drama in London. ]
Bydd hiraeth a bwlch mawr ar ei hôl.
[ There will be <hiraeth> and a huge gap in her wake. ]
So I’m seeing it used for “life before coronavirus”, “Wales, now that I’ve moved to London”, and the person who’s the subject of an obituary.
What this all tells me is the word isn’t as precious or as mystical as English-speakers discussing it make it out to be.
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