clawdd

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *klādos, from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂dos.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈklaːu̯ð/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈklau̯ð/

• Audio:

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Noun

clawdd m (plural cloddiau or cloddion)

1. soil thrown up in digging a pit or trench; mound, wall made of earth, dyke, earthwork, bulwark
   1. boundary
   2. hedge, fence
2. ditch, gutter, trench
   1. pit, quarry, mine
   2. moat, fosse

Derived terms

• arglawdd (“embankment”)
• Clawdd Offa (“Offa's Dyke”)
• cloddio (“to dig, to excavate”)
• cysgu fel clawdd (“to sleep like a log”)
• morglawdd (“sea wall, dyke, barrage, breakwater”)
• mwynglawdd (“mine”)
• mynd i’r clawdd (“to fail”)

 

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
clawdd	glawdd	nghlawdd	chlawdd
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “clawdd”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies