cwningar
Welsh
Alternative forms
- cwninger
- cwning-gaer
Etymology
From Middle English conynger. ultimately from Vulgar Latin cuningeria (“rabbit warren”).[1][2][3]
Notes
The alternative form cwning-gaer is a phono-semantically matched folk etymology as a compound of cwning (“rabbits”) and caer (“fort”).
Pronunciation
- (North Wales, South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /kʊˈnɪŋar/
- (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /kʊˈnɪŋan/
Noun
cwningar m (plural cwningaroedd)[4]
- rabbit warren[3][4][5]
- 2009: Gŵyl Gerdded Ynys Môn 2009 (Isle of Anglesey Walking Festival 2009), dydd Iau Mai 28 (Thursday May 28), Taith 20 (Walk 20): “Cwningar Niwbwrch a Gwarchodfa Natur Genedlaethol Ynys Llanddwyn” (“Newborough Warren and Ynys Llanddwyn NNR”)
- Cwningar Niwbwrch a Gwarchodfa Natur Genedlaethol Ynys Llanddwyn yw un o’n systemau twyni tywod mwyaf trawiadol a phwysicaf.
- Newborough Warren & Ynys Llanddwyn National Nature Reserve is one of our most spectacular and important sand dune systems.
- 2009: Gŵyl Gerdded Ynys Môn 2009 (Isle of Anglesey Walking Festival 2009), dydd Iau Mai 28 (Thursday May 28), Taith 20 (Walk 20): “Cwningar Niwbwrch a Gwarchodfa Natur Genedlaethol Ynys Llanddwyn” (“Newborough Warren and Ynys Llanddwyn NNR”)
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| cwningar | gwningar | nghwningar | chwningar |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- Cymmrodorion Record Series (№ 1, volume 2) by the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in London, England (1897; self-published), page 571 〃
The word cuningeria has been naturalised in Wales, e.g., in Gwningar, near the Newborough rabbit-warren in Anglesey. - Hanes a chyfansoddiadau arobryn Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Môn, Eisteddfod Caergybi, 1907 by Cymdeithas Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Môn (1908; self-published), page 54
[…] a word which occurs so often in Welsh place-names, is derived from Low Latin Cuningeria “ a rabbit warren.” - R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cwninger”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
- Hippocrene Standard Welsh–English, English–Welsh Dictionary by Davidovic Mladen and Harold Meurig Evans (1993; revised edition; Hippocrene Books; →ISBN, 9780781801362), page 85
- Geiriadur Cymraeg–Saesneg a Saesneg–Cymraeg by Thomas Gwynn Jones and Arthur ap Gwynn (1950; Hughes a’i Fab and the Educational Pub. Co.), page 196
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