cegid

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɡɪd/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkeːɡɪd/, /ˈkɛɡɪd/

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) From the same source as cecys (“kex, hollow stalks”) Cornish cegas, English kex and Latin cicūta (“hemlock”).

Angau Socrates drwy ddiod gegid.

Noun

cegid f (collective, singulative cegiden)

1. hemlock, (Conium spp.), especially poison hemlock (Conium maculatum)

Alternative forms

• cegyr

Synonyms

• gwyn y dillad
• hemlog

Derived terms

• cegid cyffredin, (Middle Welsh) tost y gegid (“common hemlock”)
• cegid dail persli (“parsley water-dropwort”)
• cegid fenyw (“cow parsley”)
• cegid meinddail (“narrow-leaved water-dropwort”)
• cegid Mynwy (“corky-fruited water-dropwort”)
• cegid pêr/perion, cegid gwyn(ion) (“sweet cicely”)
• cegid pibellaidd (“tubular water-dropwort”)
• cegid pumbys (“water hemlock, cowbane”)
• cegid y dŵr (“hemlock water-dropwort; water hemlock, cowbane”)
• cegid yr afon (“river water-dropwort”)
• cegidaidd (“relating to hemlock”)
• cegidog (“abounding in hemlock”)
• cegidwydd (“hemlock spruces”)

 

Etymology 2

Alternative form of cegin (“woodpecker; jay”).

Noun

cegid f (plural cegidau)

1. woodpecker (Picidae), notably:
   1. green woodpecker (Picus viridis)

      Synonym: cnocell y coed

   2. great spotted woodpecker, witwall (Dendrocopos major)

      Synonyms: cnocell fraith fwyaf, pioden y coed

2. Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)

   Synonym: sgrech y coed

3. European greenfinch (Chloris chloris)

   Synonym: llinos werdd

Derived terms

• y gegid fechan (“cuckoo”)
• cegid fraith (“spotted woodpecker”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cegid	gegid	nghegid	chegid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.