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GPC Welsh dictionary
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Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru (GPC): the only historical dictionary of Welsh. Moving to @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social Trydar Cymraeg: @geiriadur & Bluesky
- Word of the Day: ar ei liwt ei hun geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?a… An idiom first recorded in 1885, meaning to do something on one's own, independently, or off one's own bat. 'Liwt', borrowed from the English 'lute' is an old instrument similar to the guitar, popular in the 13th-17th cs.
- Word of the day: geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?h… ‘a duck’ Moch dysg nawf mab hwyad. A proverb from the Red Book of Hergest (1400): a duckling soon learns how to swim. The point is that we soon learn the things we do by instinct. Swimming is not natural for us, as it is for ducks!
- Word of the Day: prifardd geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?p…. In this instance it refers to a chaired bard at a National Eisteddfod, namely Dic Jones, who died on this date in 2009. He was one of the most well-known Welsh poets of the last half century.
- Word of the Day: ysgythru geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?y… A verb dating back to the 12th century, meaning to cut or hack (off), prune and clear, or graze, scratch, carve, engrave, inscribe and draw.
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