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Welsh
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ped-skuH-t-, from *ped- (“foot”) + *(s)kewH- (“to cover”); the former component is cognate with English foot, and the latter with Ancient Greek σκῦτος (skûtos, “skin, hide”).[1] Direct cognate with Cornish eskis (“shoe”).
Pronunciation
Noun
esgid f (plural esgidiau)
- shoe
Mi gaeth o esgidiau rhedeg newydd cyn y ras.- He got new running shoes before the race.
- boot
Derived terms
Mutation
References
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “esgid”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
- ^ George Sherman Lane (1931) “Words for Clothing in the Principal Indo-European Languages”, in Language, volume 7, number 3, Linguistic Society of America, →DOI, page 35 of 3‒44