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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! darth (tarth) = vapour, steam, haze, mist, fog, gas, smoke, fume -œs na darth 'no? = is there a smoke there?

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

So it's about this time of the year that we're reminded that we think the oldest surviving modern #Eisteddfod Catar may possibly be somewhere in the Dakotas. #Cadair

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

tafotiæth! wes = œs = oes 😊 wes whant peint? = œs taro peint?

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Gair y wsnos! Word of the week! tambid = bloody hot. -œdd 'r'oul yn dambid 'eddi = the sun was bloody hot today.

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

There are some interesting terms here! Britain: The Greek geographer, explorer and astronomer Pytheas of Massalia left the first documented record of a name. He navigated to, and referred to, the Prettanike nesoi, Πρετανικαι νησοι - generally understood as 'the isles of the painted people'.

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! bathotyn = medal, badge -ma nw 'di 'nill lot o fathotyna wythnos ma = they have won a lot of medals [across] this last week.

picture of a winner of a medal at the eisteddfod yr urdd on ynys mon.

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Gîra'r dydd! Words of the day! distraught = anwyllig shocked = echrydu confused = syrddanu

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! barn = action of judging, judgement, decision, verdict. -Fe ddaw barn arnot ti = There will be a judgement on you

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! clinc - a bad habit; an evil way to be; a foul principle -wff... na'r glinc! = wow... that's a bad habit! -'r'en glinc = old Nick; the devil himself.

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! rwyfus = uneasy -ma syfyllfa'n rwyfus = the situation is uneasy

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! iapach = to jibber away incessantly; to yap without making much sense -ma fa'n iapach 'to = he is jibbering away incessantly again. 😵

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Gair y dydd. Word of the day. ryfal = war -ma na ryfal 'no = there is a war (over) there

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Gîra'r dydd! Words of the day! Cæ = enclosed field Mæs = open field @eisteddfod.cymru rwpath i ragystyro am y dyfodol 😉

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

So... we've been doing some work on local place names. Here's an interesting one. Cæ Tomla. Cæ - enclosed field Tom <- Twmp - lump(s) La <- Lle - place The field with lump(s) in..... So it's likely the were something like burial mounds in before the houses were built there!

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Gair y wsnos. Word of the week. Arswdoldab = Awfulness -ma na lot o arswdoldab obutu = there's a lot of awfulness about

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Newyddion! ma Eisteddfod yr Urdd yn dod i Sir Fynwy blwyddyn nesa (Casnewydd)! Y tro cyntaf yma! News! The Urdd Eisteddfod is coming to the Gwent area next year (Newport)! First time here! The fundraiser is here if you could help with it.... justgiving.com/campaign/eiste… Dera mlæn!

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Here in the SE it can also be: worm = llyngyr 🐛😁

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Or in #Wenhwyseg - atarn drutw 😁 More info about our feathered friends: @rspbcymru.bsky.social

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

With no disrespect to the post below, this is another inaccurate map of the Roman road network of Wales. Both this and the recently publicised digital atlas of ancient roads leaves out roads confirmed in Wales 30 years ago Still old (2011) - but better is this map... cadw.gov.wales/sites/defaul...

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

This is apparently the Roman Road infrastructure of Cymru.

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

'Dolig Difyr! Merry Christmas!

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

From Elfed in 1916, here's Carolau Nadolig.

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! trimins = (Christmas) decorations -ma na siaw o drimins! = that's quite the show of decorations

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

From the pen of Isaac R Jones (Rhuddonian) in Mountain Ash in 1908, we bring you a cyfarchiad Nadolig - a Christmas Greeting.

Gwyl Nadolig lawn diliau, -celynen, Calenig, carolau, Digonedd o deganau, Gwnewch fyw'n hir, gan wych fwynhau.

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The Cardiff Times in 1908 told us how to make Christmas Pudding......

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Wetiad y dydd! Expression of the day! cario'r gath = to fold your arms across the chest (often to express disagreement). literally - 'to carry the cat'

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Today apparently marks the anniversary of the first elected woman mayor in Wales - Gwenllian Morgan, in 1910. breconstory.wales/stories/1st-woman-mayor-of-brecon artuk.org/discover/art...

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! dywanu = to skulk; to scamper -dywanu ffwrdd ys leidr = to skulk away like a thief. -ddywana cyn gynted a galla = i will scamper as fast as i am able to

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

We like the idea of this - but would far prefer 'trwydded teithio' as the official title - it's far more poetic.

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

#OTD 1839 • The Chartist Uprising at Newport 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Reports suggest that some seven or eight thousand men marched on the Westgate Hotel. It is thought that around 50 were injured and some 22 of the Chartists were killed. www.peoplescollection.wales/content/newp... #Wales ##History

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

So upcoming is Nos Calan Gæf...... Spirits are supposed to come visit from darkness for the next day, and bonfires were supposed to be held on the next night to help their passage. Here in the SE, you may be visited by the Lêdi Wen. Bonfires were supposed to divine the future.

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Today (26 October) is the feast day of Saint Gwynnog. Saint Gwynnog was the son of Saint Gildas, who was in turn the son of King Caw. He settled in Cornwall, where he is known as Winnoc, and Pinnock, and Winnow.

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

We pronounce things quite similarly to the NW..... But our grammar is nicer 😉

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! Ffæ = beans Ffafen = bean -Nei di pico'r ffæ? = Will you go and pick the beans?

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The coming Monday is the Autumn Equinox. In Cymraeg, this can be referred to as: Alban Elfed It was traditional here in the South East to hold an Eisteddfod to mark the occasion - as can be seen here in 1872.

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The original tribe in the South East of Cymru were the Silures. The Roman invasion of the other parts of Britain began in AD43. Having swept across the tribes, Ostorius encountered the local inhabitants in AD48. The Silures remained undefeated, despite 30 years of attempts.

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Ha! We can go soooooo much shorter. wn i'm 😀

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! tawnt = stubbornness -œdd tawnt arswdus arni = she was terribly stubborn (lit. there was a terrible stubbornness on her)

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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Does the red bit not contain the Lake District? 🤔

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