Ben Rhys by Gwilym Bowen Rhys
Genre: Folk Origin: North Wales
Verbs:
naddu - to mine, hew, chip, whittle gael - to put, receive llafurio - to labour, toil chwysu - to sweat ennill - to earn disgyn - to descend cau - to close gadael - to leave gwasgu - to squeeze, press mygu - to choke, suffocate curiad - to beat cyflymu - to quicken, accelerate galaru - to mourn, grieve, lament wylo - to weep, cry, blubber llenwi - to fill
Phrases:
byth a beunydd - day in day out hyd fy nyddiau - all my days
Nouns:
löwr - collier Cyrmo - Welshman morgrugyn (morgrug) - ant(s) pwll - pit, pool, puddle, pond canol - centre cwm - valley bara - bread bwrdd - table, board llawr (lloriau) - earth, ground, floor, storey(s) caledwch - hardship tywyllwch - darkness ceiniogau - pennies, pence gŵr - husband lleithder - damp, humidity mur(iau) - wall(s) brennau - beams golau - light diffyg - lack aer - air cnawd - flesh nwy(on) - gas(es) sŵn - noise, patter, beating morthwyl(ion) - hammer(s) pedwar - four ugain - twenty gormes - oppression, tyranny meistr(i) - master(s) poced(i) - pocket(s) cyfiawnder - justice
cragen (f.) - shell fagddu (f.) - blackness awr (oriau) (f.) - hour(s) ffwrn (f.) - forge, oven, furnace dyletswydd (f.) - duty gwawr (f.) - dawn, daybreak, hue, shade haf (f.) - summer cannwyll (f.) - candle ffawd (f.) - fate, fortune caib (f.) - pick-axe bron (f.) - breast bedd (f.) - grave gweddw(on) (f.) - widow(s) troed (traed) (f.) - foot (feet)
Adjectives:
glân - clean, pure, holy, fair budr - dirty, grubby brau - brittle, fragile noeth - exposed, naked, bare diniwed - innocent, unaware, unharmed llethol - overwhelming byddarol - deafening trwm - heavy
Other:
mân - merely gynt - formerly ar agor - open eu - their
