menyn
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Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]menyn
Welsh
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Apheretic variant of now formal ymenyn, Middle Welsh ymenyn, from Proto-Celtic *amben (compare Cornish aman, Breton amann, Old Irish imb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éngʷn̥ (compare Latin unguen (“grease”), Alemannic German Anke).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈmɛnɨ̞n/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈmeːnɪn/, /ˈmɛnɪn/
Noun
[edit]menyn m (uncountable)
Derived terms
[edit]- bara menyn (“bread and butter”)
- blodyn ymenyn (“buttercup”)
- braster menyn (“butterfat”)
- cap cwyr ymenyn (“butter waxcap, Hygrocybe ceracea”)
- cap menyn (“butter cap, Rhodocollybia butyracea”)
- cyflaith menyn (“butterscotch”)
- ffa menyn (“butter beans”)
- menyn bach (“homemade butter”)
- menyn Mai (“unsalted butter kept for medicinal purposes”)
- menyn newydd (“fresh butter”)
- menyn pot (“potted salted butter”)
- menyn pysgnau (“peanut butter”)
- menyn toddi (“(sweet or savoury) white sauce”)
- menyn y tylwyth teg (“rock-oil”)
- pat menyn (“butter pat”)
- pwmpen cnau menyn (“butternut squash”)
- ymenyn y wrach (“witch's butter, Exidia glandulosa”)
Mutation
[edit]Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
menyn | fenyn | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*amben-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 69
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “menyn”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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