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Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *kʷalatros (compare Old Irish celtair (“spear, spear tip”)).
Noun
paladr m (plural pelydr)
- shaft (of spear, bone, column, chimney)
- (literary) stem (of plant, flower, fruit, etc.)
- Synonyms: coes, coesyn, coesen
- (architecture) trunk
- Synonym: boncyff
- (history, religion) upright of cross
- beam, ray
Derived terms
Compounds
- ceiniog baladr f (“a fine under medieval Welsh law levied on related male landowners when the immediate kin of a murderer proved incapable of paying galanas”, literally “spear penny”)
Mutation
References
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “paladr”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies