grug

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *gwrʉg, from Proto-Celtic *wroikos, from an unknown non-Indo-European source.

Compare Czech vřes, Latvian vìrsis, Ancient Greek ἐρείκη (ereíkē).

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɡryːɡ]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɡriːɡ]

Noun

grug m or m pl (plural grugow, singulative gruglon)

1. heather

Compounds

• grugyar

Mutation

  Mutation of grug  

Cornish consonant mutation
unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
grug	wrug	unchanged	krug	hwrug	wrug

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ɡrɨːɡ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ɡriːɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɨːɡ

Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh gwrug, from Proto-Brythonic *gwrʉg, from Proto-Celtic *wroikos, from an unknown non-Indo-European source.

Compare Czech vřes, Latvian vìrsis, Ancient Greek ἐρείκη (ereíkē).

Alternative forms

• gwrug (obsolete)
• gwrig (Pembrokeshire)

Noun

grug m or m pl (plural grugoedd, singulative grugyn or grugen)

1. heather

Derived terms

• gruga, grugo (“to gather heather”)
• grugog

Compounds

• grugiar (“grouse”)
• grugle (“heath, moor”)
• gruglus (“bilberries”)
• gruglwyn (“sweet broom”)
• gruglyd (“heathery”)
• grugnythu (“to nestle in heather”)
• grugos (“heath, moor”)
• grugwellt (“cocksfoot”)
• iâr rug (“grouse”)

 

Mutation

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

Etymology 2

Noun

grug

1. Soft mutation of crug (“hillock”).

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
crug	grug	nghrug	chrug
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.