pic ar y maen

Welsh

Alternative forms

Etymology

From pic (“small round cake, griddle cake”) + maen (“stone, griddle”).

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales, standard) IPA(key): /ˌpɪk ar ə ˈmaːɨ̯n/
  • (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˌpɪk ar ə ˈmai̯n/
    • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˌpɪk ar ə ˈmaːn/

Noun

pic ar y maen f (plural picau ar y maen or picau maen)

  1. (South Wales) Welsh cake
    Synonyms: cacen fach, cacen gri, picen, picen ar y maen, picen fach, teisen gri, teisen radell, Welsh cêc

Usage notes

  • There are many terms for Welsh cake in Welsh and the particular word an individual uses will vary from area to area.
  • Although pic ar y maen is the full singular form of plural picau ar y maen, these are usually referred to as just picen in the singular.

Mutation

Mutated forms of pic ar y maen
radical soft nasal aspirate
pic ar y maen bic ar y maen mhic ar y maen phic ar y maen

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.