dogfen

Welsh

Etymology

Coined by the 16th-century scholar Gruffydd Robert as a borrowing from Medieval Latin documentum, but shaped as if it had been inherited from a Proto-Brythonic intermediate *dogβ̃en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɡ.vɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɔɡvɛn

Noun

dogfen f (plural dogfennau)

1. document
2. article of faith
3. instruction
4. rule

Mutation

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