gwyn

• IPA^(key): [ɡwiːn]

gwyn m

1. Alternative form of gwin

• gwỳn, gwynn (obsolete)

From Middle Welsh gwynn, from Proto-Brythonic *gwɨnn, from Proto-Celtic *windos.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ɡwɨ̞n/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ɡwɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɨ̞n

gwyn (feminine singular gwen, plural gwynion, equative gwynned, comparative gwynnach, superlative gwynnaf)

1. white
2. blessed

• bore gwyn (“early morning”)
• du a gwyn (“black and white; piebald”)
• gwyn y gwêl y frân ei chyw (“a parent does not see the faults of his or her own child”)
• gwynder (“whiteness”)
• gwyniad (“(a species of fish native to Bala Lake in Wales)”)
• gwynnu (“to whiten”)
• tyngu'r du yn wyn (“to swear black is white”)