genosom

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English genosome.

Noun

genosom m (plural genosomau)

genosome

Usage notes

Like many other unnaturalised, g-initial words, genosom does not undergo soft mutation. Conversely, genosom always undergoes nasal mutation to ngenosom. For similar examples, see golff, gêm and glwten.

Mutation

Mutated forms of *genosom*
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
genosom	unchanged^△	ngenosom	unchanged

^△Irregular.

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

Further reading

Delyth Prys, J.P.M. Jones, Owain Davies, Gruffudd Prys (2006) Y Termiadur: termau wedi'u safoni; standardised terminology‎^[1] (in Welsh), Cardiff: Awdurdod cymwysterau, cwricwlwm ac asesu Cymru (Qualifications curriculum & assessment authority for Wales), →ISBN