bedw

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-.

Pronunciation

Noun

bedw f (collective, singulative bedwen)

  1. birches

Derived terms

  • bedw arian (“silver birches”)
  • bedwen Fai (“maypole”)
  • bedwen haf (“maypole”)
  • bedwen Ifan (“maypole”)
  • bedwos (“birch grove”)
  • carn y fedwen (“hoof fungus”)
  • corfedw (“dwarf birches”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of bedw
radical soft nasal aspirate
bedw fedw medw unchanged

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

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