huddygl

Welsh

Etymology

From Brito-Latin hybrid *sūdikul (compare Cornish hudhygel, Breton huzel), from Proto-Celtic *sūdiā (compare Old Irish suide), from Proto-Indo-European *suh₃d-, metathesis of *sh₃ud- (compare English soot).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈhɨ̞ðɨ̞ɡl/, /ˈhɨ̞ðɨ̞ɡl̩/
  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈhɨ̞ðɨ̞ɡl/, /ˈhɨ̞ðɨ̞ɡl̩/

Noun

huddygl m (uncountable)

  1. soot

References

  1. ↑ Nicholas Zair, The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 124-5.
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