llon

See also: -llon

Welsh[edit]

From Middle Welsh llonn, from Proto-Brythonic *llonn, from Proto-Celtic *londos (compare Old Irish lond (“fierce”)),^[1] of uncertain ultimate origin; Stokes suggests a comparison with Sanskrit रन्धयति (randhayati, “to torment, destroy”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“to cook”).^[2]

llon (feminine singular llon, plural llonnau, equative llonned, comparative llonnach, superlative llonnaf)

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

^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “llon”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
^ Stokes, Whitley (1890) “The Old-Irish Glosses in Regina nr. 215”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der indogermanischen Sprachen, volume 30, page 557: “„Cornuta facies,“ Exod. XXXIV. 29. lond immitis, amarus, commutis, whence londas „indignatio“, for-lond oppression, an-for-lond „violence“. Cf. perhaps skr. radh, randhaya.”