gwefus

Welsh

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gwefus

penglog

talcen

ymennydd

ael

llygad

gwefus

trwyn

ceg

gên

boch

clust

arlais

gwddf

or

llwnc

gwddf

gwar

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corff

corff

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *webussu (compare Cornish gweus, Breton gweuz), compound of *we- (compare gwefl (“animal lip”)) and Proto-Celtic *bussu (“lip”) (compare Scottish Gaelic bus, Old Irish busóc (“kiss”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bus- (“to kiss”) (compare Latin bāsium (“kiss”), Lithuanian bučiúoti, Albanian buzë (“mouth”), Persian بوسیدن (bôsidan, “to kiss”)).

Noun

gwefus f (plural gwefusau)

1. lip (on mouth)

Mutation

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