dichon
Welsh
editEtymology
editFrom a Proto-Celtic *dī-ad-kān-, from *dī- (“from, of”) + *ad- (“ad-”) + a root *kān- (“sound”) that also appears in gwogawn (“glory”), gogoniant (“splendour”), and digon (“enough”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈdɪχɔn/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈdiːχɔn/, /ˈdɪχɔn/
Adverb
editdichon
- (literary) perhaps, maybe
- Synonym: efallai
- 2010 February 18, Glyn Evans, “Yn gryno yn Gymraeg”, in BBC Cymru Cylchgrawn[1]:
- Dichon y dywaid rhai fod gennym yn barod ddigon, onid gormod, o gyfnodolion Cymraeg.
- Maybe some said that we had enough, if not too many, Welsh periodicals.