hocys

Welsh

Hocys cyffredin

Etymology

From Middle English hockes (“mallows”), from Old English hoc (“marsh mallow”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔkɨ̞s/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔkɪs/

Noun

hocys f (collective, singulative hocysen, not mutable)

1. mallow (Malvaceae)

   Synonym: malws

2. common mallow (Malva sylvestris)

   Synonym: hocys cyffredin

Derived terms

• brychan yr hocys (“mallow, a species of moth”)
• coeg-hocys (“checkerblooms, Sidalcea”)
• corhocys, hocys bychan, hocys crynddail, hocys dinodys (“dwarf mallow”)
• gwibiwr yr hocys (“mallow skipper, a species of butterfly”)
• gwyfyn hadau hocys (“hollyhock seed moth”)
• gwyfyn hocys (“marsh-mallow moth”)
• hocys bach (“least mallow”)
• hocys bendigaid (“hollyhock”)
• hocys cyffredin (“common mallow”)
• hocys dragiog (“vervain mallow”)
• hocys droellog (“Chinese mallow”)
• hocys Ffrainc (“French mallow”)
• hocys mân-blodeuog, hocys blodau bychan (“small mallow”)
• hocys mwsg, hocys mws, hocys gwyllt, hocys simwnt (“musk-mallow”)
• hocys pigog (“prickly mallow”)
• hocys Queensland (“Queensland hemp”)
• hocys Seland Newydd (“New Zealand mallow”)
• hocys y morfa, hocys y dŵr, hocys y gors, môr-hocys, dail yr hocys (“marsh-mallow”)
• hocys-mwsg mawr (“greater musk-mallow”)
• hocys-y-morfa blewog (“rough marsh-mallow”)
• hocyswydd (“tree mallow”)
• pig-y-crëyr dail hocys (“soft stork's-bill”)
• rhwd hocys (“mallow rust”)

 

Other hyponyms

• cetmia chwysigennog (“bladder ketmia”)
• dail melfed (“velvetleaf”)