graean

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh graean, and cognate to Old Irish grïan (whence Irish grean). The exact shape of their common etymon is obscure; Proto-Celtic *griyano- is one reconstruction.

Pronunciation

Noun

graean m or f (collective, masculine singulative greyenyn, feminine singulative graeanen)

  1. gravel, grit, shingles
    Synonym: gro

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of graean
radical soft nasal aspirate
graean raean ngraean unchanged

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

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.