GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 10hWord of the Day trwydded www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Permission or a certificate to do something CC BY-SA 4.0 Auge=mit commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F%... 021
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Word of the day: madarch geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... One of the many names for mushrooms found in GPC which include bwyd y barcud (food for the red kite)/boda (buzzard)/broga (frog), and ellyllon (goblins)! See also caws llyffant, shrwmps, sirwms, and grawn bwytadwy. 052
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Word of the Day: gŵyl Fihangel www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html.... Today is Michaelmas day or the festival of St. Michael, and the Welsh names ‘gŵyl Fihangel’ and ‘dyw gŵyl Fihangel’ date back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. 020
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We are aware of possible red warnings that XSLT will be removed from Chrome, Edge, Firefox etc, and are working to change the technology that GPC uses. There is no need to be concerned in the meantime. Apologies for the temporary inconvenience. 032
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Word of the day: BALCHDER geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... 'pride', used in a positive sense, as in the pride or pleasure one feels following an achievement (as in the swan's evident pride at producing her egg here); or in a negative sense for a high opinion of one’s self, or arrogance. 052
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Friends old and new are very welcome! 010
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Word of the Day: GWAWN geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Meaning gossamer and cobwebs flying in the wind on a sunny day, settling over the grass. Gwawn is also used in a transferred or metaphoric sense of the fairness of a woman’s complexion or of her light hair. 🎨 'Babie lato', Józef Chełmoński, 1875 062
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Word of the Day tasio www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... To make a stack or rick of corn, hay etc; pile or heap up, bundle. Also tas(i)o, tasu, teisio etc. CC0 1.0 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tu... 032
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Word of the day: cadw geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... William Salesbury cites 'Kadw o ddefeit A flocke of shepe' in his 1547 Dictionary. The name refers to a flock or herd of kept animals 041
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Word of the Day: gogyhyd geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html.... It means ‘of equal length or duration’ and tomorrow, 23 September, is one of the two times of the year when night and day are the same length, making it the autumnal equinox geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html.... 042
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Word of the day: trymlwythog ‘heavy-laden, burdened’ geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html..., like this rowan tree bearing a heavy crop of berries. 041
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Word of the day: gwyfyn (moth) geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Gwyfyn can also refer to a woodworm, a weevil, or a mite. This hummingbird hawk-moth was spotted outside GPC and @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social's office yesterday. You can see how it could easily be mistaken for a real hummingbird! 031
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Word of the Day iwrch www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... (Male) roe-deer, Capreolus capreolus; roebuck. CC BY-SA 4.0 Uoaei1 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca... 032
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Word of the day: pensaernïaeth The photo shows next to each other two very different styles of architecture, each characteristic of their period. 130
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Word of the day: swch geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... One meaning of this word is a snout, such as the one pictured. Other meanings include a ploughshare, a pointed end or tip or a piece of land. Search for 'snout' in the English side of GPC to see the different Welsh synonyms. 031
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Word of the day: ANGHYRAEDDADWY, geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... ‘unreachable’ The perfect word to describe these plums, which are ‘y tu hwnt i gyrraedd’ (beyond reach) and ‘anhygyrch’ (inaccessible). Their fate will surely be to fall into the stream below, or to rot on the branch. 000
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Word of the Day: mwyara geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... meaning to gather or pick blackberries (blackberrying). This verb also has a figurative meaning to be idle or lazy. What are you doing this weekend? Do you plan to go blackberry-picking, or do you plan on having a lazy weekend? 042
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Word of the Day enfys www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Rainbow; resembling a rainbow in shape. 020
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Word of the day: tocyn (toc) geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... 'Packed food (usually containing bread (and butter)) for consumption away from home'. Other names for a packed lunch found in the Dictionary are pryd aros, snap, and snapin. 010
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Word of the Day: llosgi geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... – which means to be on fire and to burn down. That is what happened 90 years ago at Penyberth near Penrhos, Pwllheli, when the bombing school being set up there was set alight to show opposition to it. 000
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Word of the day: pladur ‘scythe’ geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html..., a tool traditionally used at this time of the year to reap crops. 053
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Word of the day: mwd (vault) geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Possibly a word borrowed from Middle English 'voute' (vault), it can mean a vaulted ceiling or roof, a canopy or an arch or cellar. 'Mwd' is also found in the second element of the word 'nenfwd' (ceiling). 054
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Word of the Day pryd ar glud www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... A service that delivers food to those unable to cook for themselves, meals on wheels. CC BY 4.0 Wellcome Collection commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Me... 010
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Word of the day MACHLUD ‘sunset’ geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... MACHLUD (formerly YMACHLUDD) describes the sun setting in the west, disappearing from view for the night before rising again in the DWYRAIN ‘east’. The old verb dwyre/dwyrain meant ‘to rise’. 063
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Word of the Day: Monwysyn geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... – meaning an inhabitant of Anglesey. The famous Anglesey artist, Syr Kyffin Williams, died on this date twenty years ago. 010
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Word of the day: breuddwyd ‘a dream’: geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html.... On this day in 1963, Martin Luther King, the civil rights activist, delivered his speech ‘I Have a Dream’. 032
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Gair y dydd: arwain (to lead) www.welsh-dictionary.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... The little boy in the picture is leading the mare with a lead-rope. The word also means 'to carry, bear' and 'to behave (properly)'. Take a look at the Dictionary article to discover more meanings. 020
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Word of the day: cacimwci ‘burdock’ geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html..., a wild plant with prickly flower-heads that tend to stick to clothes, animal fur, &c. 041
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Word of the Day: crwth halen: geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html.... There are several Welsh terms for a salt cellar, ‘cetog halen’ geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html..., is another. Both ‘crwth’ and ‘cetog’ have basket and box as possible meanings. 010
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Word of the day: llwy www.welsh-dictionary.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Where would we be without spoons! Take a look at the Dictionary article - did you know llwy is also a name for the paddle of a water-wheel? 010
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Word of the Day: ar ei liwt ei hun geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... An idiom first recorded in 1885, meaning to do something on one's own, independently, or off one's own bat. 'Liwt', borrowed from the English 'lute' is an old instrument similar to the guitar, popular in the 13th-17th centuries. 021
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Word of the Day seithochrog www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Heptagonal, seven-sided, e.g. like a type of polygon or polyhedron, or of such a shape. CC BY-SA 3.0 Numizmat 675 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ga... 020
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Word of the day: geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... ‘a duck’ Moch dysg nawf mab hwyad A proverb from the Red Book of Hergest (1400): a duckling soon learns how to swim. The point is that we soon learn the things we do by instinct. Swimming is not natural for us as it is for ducks! 020
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Word of the Day: prifardd geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html.... In this instance it refers to a chaired bard at a National Eisteddfod, namely Dic Jones, who died on this date in 2009. He was one of the most well-known Welsh poets of the last half century. 020
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Word of the day: diferion www.welsh-dictionary.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... These drops of rain are more than welcome this morning! See also dafn - dafnau glaw. 030
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Word of the Day: ysgythru geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... A verb dating back to the 12th century, meaning to cut or hack (off), prune and clear, or graze, scratch, carve, engrave, inscribe and draw. 010
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Word of the day: hwch geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... In the photograph a Tamworth sow and her piglets are sleeping on a bed of straw. Other names for sow listed in GPC are cynar and gwŷs. There are more - see if you can find them. 021
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Word of the day: diffyg: geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... in sense 2. 'eclipse (of heavenly body)'. A 'total eclipse' (diffyg cyflawn) is expected in Iceland and Spain today, with a 'partial eclipse' (diffyg rhannol) in the UK. 042
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Word of the Day: brithdir geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html.... It means ‘land or soil of variegated character’ and appears in several place names. Brithdir near Dolgellau is named in the Welsh folk song Wrth Fynd efo Deio i Dywyn. 020
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Word of the day: hwrdd geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... This ram has an important job - he grazes the churchyard to keep it tidy! Another word for ram is maharen. 020
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Diolch Mererid, llywydd ymroddgar Cyfeillion GPC, am ein gwahodd i drafod geiriau tafodieithol cerdd Dewi Emrys “Pwllderi” - a oedd yn gydfuddugol yn yr Eisteddfod union ganrif yn ôl, am gerdd mewn tafodiaith leol 031
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Word of the day: geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... GWYRAIN ‘barnacles’ (singular GWYRAN). A type of crustacean that attaches itself firmly to rocks or the hulls of boats. It was once believed, by Gerald of Wales and others, that barnacle geese were born from these small crustaceans. 010
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Word of the Day hyfref www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Apt to bleat, e.g. sheep or similar animals. CC BY-SA 4.0 Mathieu Landretti commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sh... 011
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Word of the day: TAFODIAITH geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... ‘dialect’. Here are some words that we associate with the area hosting this year's National Eisteddfod: north-east Pembrokeshire and southern Ceredigion. What’s your favourite dialect word (please note from which area)? 030
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Friends of GPC at the Eisteddfod - Friends old and new are very welcome to the event at Y Babell Lên this Saturday at 11am, and afterwards to the UWTSD stand (803-806) to join some of the staff for a chat. 000
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Word of the Day: coffa geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html.... ‘Coffa’ means ‘memorial’. The main ceremony in the Pavilion at the Eisteddfod today is the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize for a novel hitherto unpublished. Daniel Owen was an influential 19th century Welsh novelist. (Photo: portrait of Daniel Owen) 001
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Word of the day: brethyn geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... The woollen cloth in the Eisteddfod crown has been especially designed and woven to depict the flora of Preseli landscape. Who will win this fine crown? Photo: Gemwaith Bowen Jewellry 021
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Word of the Day: CARAFANIO (caravanning) geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... to travel or stay in a caravan, or spend a holiday in a caravan. One question asked each year in the National Eisteddfod is 'wyt ti'n carafanio 'leni?' (are you caravanning this year?) 000
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Word of the Day cawsellt geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... A vessel or mould that curds are pressed into to turn them into chesse, a cheese vat, chessel. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ch... 031
GPC Welsh Dictionary @gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Word of the Day: treftadaeth geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html.... It means heritage, and on 28 July 2021 the slate landscape of north-west Wales was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Photo: winding gear at Dinorwig quarry) 030
