cylched

• IPA^(key): /ˈkəlχɛd/
• Rhymes: -əlχɛd

From Middle Welsh kylchet, from Old Welsh cichet, from Proto-Brythonic *külkɨd, from Latin culcita (compare Old Breton colcet, Breton golc'hed, Old Irish colcaid).

cylched m (plural cylchedau)

1. coverlet, sheet, blanket, bedclothes

   Synonyms: tapin, blanced, gwrthban, planced

2. bed, couch

   Synonym: gwely

From cylch (“circle, ring; compass, scope, range; circumference”) +‎ -ed.

cylched f or m (plural cylchedau)

1. a going around, an encompassing; compass, ambit, circuit, circumference

   Synonyms: cylchdro, cylchdaith

2. that which surrounds or encloses, frame, framework

   Synonyms: ffrâm, fframwaith

3. (electricity) electric circuit

   Synonym: cylched drydanol

• cylched gyfres (“series circuit”)
• cylched baralel (“parallel circuit”)
• cylched drydanol (“electric circuit”)
• cylchedwaith (“circuitry”)

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “cylched”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cylched”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies