iaith
Welsh
Etymology
From Middle Welsh ieith, from Proto-Brythonic *jeiθ, from Proto-Celtic *yextis (compare Breton yezh (“language”), Cornish yeth (“language”), Old Irish icht (“tribe, people”)[1]), from Proto-Indo-European *yek- (compare Latin jocus (“joke”), Old High German jehan (“to admit, to confess”), Tocharian A yask (“to demand, to beg”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jai̯θ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ai̯θ
Derived terms
- amlieithog (“multilingual”)
- bratiaith (“argot, patois”)
- cyfieithu (“to translate”)
- Cymraeg ei iaith (“Welsh-speaking”)
- dwyieithog (“bilingual”)
- gwlad heb iaith, gwlad heb genedl (“a land without a language is a land without a nation”)
- heb iaith, heb genedl (“no language, no nation”)
- heddlu iaith (“ language police”)
- iaith arwyddion (“sign language”)
- iaith glasurol (“classical language”)
- ieithadur (“grammar book”)
- ieithydd (“linguist”)
- llediaith (“bad speech; foreign accent”)
- meta-iaith (“metalanguage”)
- tafodiaith (“dialect”)
- uwchiaith (“metalanguage”)
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | h-prothesis |
| iaith | unchanged | unchanged | hiaith |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 435
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