bathu

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Welsh

Etymology

From bath (“stamp”) +‎ -u.

Pronunciation

Verb

bathu (first-person singular present bathaf)

  1. To mint (money), to strike, to forge, to coin (an expression), to stamp, to cast
    • 1859, Hugh Hughes, Gramadeg cymraeg: sef, ieithiadur athronyddol: yn yr hwn yr amlygir deddfau yr iaith gymraeg ... hefyd, Rheolau barddoniaeth Gwynedd a Morganwg, yn nghyda rheolau y mesurau rhyddion, a Thraithawd ar reitheg, page 48:
      ...Y mae y synwyr yn ddigon eglur; pe amgen byddai yn hawdd bathu gair newydd […]
      ...The sense is clear enough; otherwise it would be easy to coin a new word 
    • 1984 December 31, Sabine Volk-Birke, Grenzpfähle Der Wirklichkeit: Approaches to the Poetry of R. S. Thomas, Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften:
      ...hyd yn oed os byddant wedi bathu gair Cymraeg ar gyfer pob teclyn ac erfyn sy'n perthyn i'r oes dechnegol, blastig y maen nhw'n byw ynddi […]
      ...even if they have coined a Welsh word for every gadget and tool that belongs to the technical, plastic age they live in 

Conjugation

Conjugation (colloquial)
Inflected colloquial forms singular plural
first second third first second third
future batha i, bathaf i bathi di bathith o/e/hi, bathiff e/hi bathwn ni bathwch chi bathan nhw
conditional bathwn i, bathswn i bathet ti, bathset ti bathai fo/fe/hi, bathsai fo/fe/hi bathen ni, bathsen ni bathech chi, bathsech chi bathen nhw, bathsen nhw
preterite bathais i, bathes i bathaist ti, bathest ti bathodd o/e/hi bathon ni bathoch chi bathon nhw
imperative — batha — — bathwch —
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Mutation

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

References

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bathu”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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