pedol
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Welsh[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Welsh pedol, perhaps borrowed from Latin pedālis (“of the foot”).[1] The presence of d rather than /ð/ dd suggests it would have been a learned borrowing into Middle Welsh, not an early borrowing into Proto-Brythonic.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈpɛdɔl/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈpeːdɔl/, /ˈpɛdɔl/
- Rhymes: -ɛdɔl
Noun[edit]
pedol f (plural pedolau)
Derived terms[edit]
- pedol cannwyll (“candelabra”)
- pedolffurf (“U-shaped”)
- pedoli (“to shoe (a horse)”)
- pedolwr (“shoer (of horses)”)
- pys y bedol (“horseshoe vetch”)
- tro pedol (“U turn; U bend”)
- u bedol (“(the letter) U”)
Mutation[edit]
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| pedol | bedol | mhedol | phedol |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||