llwybr

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sleikʷro- (compare Old Irish slicht, from *slixtus from the same root),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ-.[2]

Pronunciation
  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /ɬʊɨ̯br/, [ˈɬʊɨ̯br̩]
  • (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ɬʊi̯br/, [ˈɬʊi̯br̩]
  • Rhymes: -ʊɨ̯br

Noun

llwybr m (plural llwybrau or llwybrwydd or llwybrydd)

  1. path

Derived terms

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
llwybr lwybr unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “llwybr”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  2. Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 89 i
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