Talk:dai bach

Meaning of Dai bach

In this case the first word has an initial capital. I assume this is a useful contribution to the meaning of "dai bach" as given. My understanding is this. There is a Welsh phrase "Dai bach" which is used to address some male persons. The first part of this, Dai, is a pet form of the name David i.e. Dafydd in its Welsh form. As for the second part, bach, the website www.ilovelanguages.com says 'The [Welsh] word Bach means “small, little, short, humble; dear, beloved, poor” and is added to names as a term of endearment.' Put together, the phrase is a familiar name which I understand equates to "Little David", with an element of "Dear David". Not toilets, as in the answer given! 85.211.241.116 01:30, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

That would be at Dai bach if we had an entry. Lowercase, it's a variant of tai bach due to a pronunciation caused by the context in which the phrase appears (Welsh does a lot of these, but I don't know the specifics). Tai bach is the plural of tŷ bach, which literally means "little house", and which was originally used as a euphemism for an outhouse before being extended to toilets in general. In other words, these are mostly unrelated terms that have come to sound the same because of the peculiarities of Welsh grammar- an analogy might be something in English like "an ice house" and "a nice house"- but Welsh is more phonetic in its spelling here. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:24, 22 August 2022 (UTC)