Bathafarn

Welsh

Etymology

Back-formed from Fathafarn (soft mutation of Mathafarn), mistaken as an unmutated radical due to the fact that both b and m lenite to f in Welsh. [1]

Proper noun

Bathafarn

  1. A country house and estate near Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd, Wales.
  2. The magazine of the Historical Society of the Methodist Church in Wales.

Mutation

Mutated forms of Bathafarn
radical soft nasal aspirate
Bathafarn Fathafarn Mathafarn unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Melville Richards (1972) “Some Welsh place-names containing elements which are found in Continental Celtic”, in Études Celtiques, volume 13, number 1, →DOI, pages 390, 395
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