llyn

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See also: Llŷn

English

Etymology

Welsh llyn

Noun

llyn (plural llyns)

  1. An upland lake in Wales.
    • 1884, Mountford John B. Baddeley, C. S. Ward, North Wales (part 1, page xi)
      To enumerate all the llyns of Wales would take pages, but except Bala, there is scarcely one freshwater lake which is a main factor in any landscape of which it forms part.

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh llynn, from Proto-Brythonic *llɨnn, from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”).

Pronunciation

Noun

llyn m (plural llynnoedd or llynnau)

  1. lake

Mutation

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