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Welsh
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Welsh cnwcc, cynwck, cnwc, from Middle English knok (“strike, hit”), whence English knock. Doublet of cnoc.
Noun
cnwc m (plural cnyciau)
- a knock, hit, blow, stroke, lash, strike
Etymology 2
From Old Irish cnocc (“hill, lump, ulcer”).
Noun
cnwc m (plural cnyciau, diminutive cnwcyn or cnycyn)
- an elevation of land, a hillock, hummock, knoll, mound, tump
- a lump, protuberance
- (in or on a person’s body) a swelling, hump, abscess, tumour
- (in the wood of a tree) a knob, knot
- (crystallography) a summit (each of the two vertices of a rhombohedral crystal having equangular faces)
1858, Daniel Silvan Evans, An English and Welsh dictionary, adapted to the present state of science and literature; in which the English words are deduced from their originals, and explained by their synonyms, in the Welsh language., volume II: H–Z (overall work in English and Welsh), Denbigh · London: Thomas Gee · Simpkin & Marshall, page 790/2, s.v. “Sexdecimal, a.”:Sexdecimal, a. (Ll. sex a decem) âg iddo 6 wyneb a dau gwnwg; âg iddo ddeg wyneb.- Sexdecimal, a. (L. sex and decem) having 6 faces and two summits; having ten faces.
Derived terms
Mutation
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cnwc”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies