Tadpoles in a pool of water

Word of the day: penbwl ‘tadpole’ www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html.... Also used figuratively for an idiot or fool.

Y gair 'amguedd' gyda baner y ddraig goch yn gefndir / The word 'amguedd' in black with the Welsh flag as a background

Word of the Day: amguedd geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... meaning treasure, wealth, and (valuable) property. Adding the ending '-fa', gives the noun 'amgueddfa' (museum). @AmgueddfaCymru in Cardiff has protected and displayed Wales' 'amguedd' since its official opening, 99 years ago today

A tape measure marked in inches and centimetres being used to measure the length of a trouser leg

Word of the day: modfedd (inch) geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... The tape measure in the photograph shows both imperial and metric measurements. I wonder how many of us still measure in inches as opposed to centimetres? Compare the two articles in the Dictionary.

Blodyn Amarylis gyda'i ben yn gwyro tua'r llawr, a'r geiriau pendrwm mewn siap bwa uwch ei ben. / Amaryllis flower with its heavy head bowing towards the floor

Word of the Day: pendrwm geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... One definition for this adjective is to be heavy-headed, heavy or weighted at the top, or top-heavy - like this flower. Other definitions include being sad, downcast, dejected; tired, lazy; headstrong, determined; dull or stupid.

A gateaux

Word of the day: CHWEG geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html...
'sweet, delicious',

Chwegach bwyd cilydd, says an old 13th-cent. proverb: a concise way of saying that your friend's choice of food always looks better than your own!
It's unlikely that anyone uses CHWEG today, or are we mistaken?

Blodau'r botwm crys wrth ochr y ffordd. / Stitchwort flowers in the hedgerow

Word of the Day: botwm crys (stitchwort, Stellaria holostea) geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... This is one name for the little white flower that grows along the hedgerows this time of year. Other names include llygad madfall, serenllys and manlys.

The stage (and theatre) has been lavishly prepared for the musical Moulin Rouge, decorated in shades of red and with numerous lights.

Word of the day: llwyfan geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... This stage (and the theatre!) is lavishly prepared for a musical. Other words for stage found in the Dictionary are banllawr, chwaraefwrdd, esgynfwrdd, and staej

Llysnafedd gwyrdd / Green slime and the word 'llysnafedd' printed in front of the image.

Word of the Day: llysnafedd geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... An effective name for 'phlegm, snivel, snot, mucus, mucilage', the trail left by snail and 'slime', such as what can be found in pools of water. The name could be considered as an onomatopoeia. Have you heard this word before?

a colourful display of fruit and vegetables on a stall in an outdoor market

Word of the day: stondin geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... (stall) This stallholder has created a colourful and appealing display to tempt the buyers at Birmingham market!

A stone stile on a field boundary

Word of the day: camfa ‘stile’ www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... like this one with stone steps to assist someone to cross a field boundary.

painting of the last supper (by an unknown artist) with a stool, bowl and cloth in the foreground, ready for the washing of feet

Word of the Day: Cablyd (not to be confused with cablyd with a lower case 'c'!) geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html..., usually found in the combination Difiau Cablyd - Maundy Thursday - which is today.

Alarm clock

Word of the day: LARWM geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... was borrowed from the English ‘alarm’ in the Middle Ages.
That in turn came from French ‘à l’arme’ or Italian ‘all’arme’ – both originating as cries to battle: ‘to arms!’
Rising at the command of the CLOC LARWM often feels like that!

A cluster of yellow lesser celandine flowers

Word of the Day: llygaid Ebrill geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html.... This literally means ‘the eyes of April’ and is one of a number of Welsh terms for the lesser celandine or pilewort.

Churchyard at Ystrad Fflur (Strata Florida), Ceredigon, and St Mary's church under a cloudy grey sky with the sun trying to make an appearance

Word of the day: mynwent geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... As yesterday was Palm Sunday (Sul y Blodau), many of us will have visited graveyards to lay flowers as a mark of respect and remembrance. According to Llyfr Plygain 1683, today is known as 'Llun y Blodau' - look it up under llun2.

A mosaic of the theatre masks - comedy and tragedy

Word of the Day: neilleb (an aside) geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... On World Theatre Day - 'neilleb' are the words spoken by an actor in a play that are heard by the audience even though the other actors pretend not to hear. This technique creates intensity or amusement in a performance.

Investigators asking questions

Word of the Day holgar www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Inquisitive, curious, inquiring

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A sheep guarding her young lamb

Word of the day: mamol ‘motherly’ www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... like this sheep guarding her young lamb.

Tea being poured from a pink teapot into a matching cup with suacer.

Word of the day: cwpanaid geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Meeting a friend and putting the world to rights over a cup of tea is one of life's great pleasures. In the Dictionary you will find 'paned and 'panad (colloquialisms of cwpanaid) and dishaid for your cuppa!

Dau lysieun (tebyg i rwdins) â chanddynt wynebau, a'r geiriau pen rwdan mewn swigen siarad - fel petai un llysieun yn siarad â'r llall. / Miniatures of two root vegetables (similar to a turnip) with faces, and the words 'pen rwdan' in a speech bubble - as if one vegetable is speaking to the other.

Word of the Day: pen rwdan geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html...
To call someone a 'pen rwdan' or a 'pen rẁd' (a swede head or a turnip head) would be to call them a stupid person, an idiot or a fool. Similar Welsh insults include 'pen meipen' (turnip head) and 'pen dafad' (sheep head).

The Virgin Mary and Jesus

Word of the Day: FFAGL geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... flame, fire-brand. Decended from the Latin ‘facula’, possibly a cognate of the Catalan word ‘fallas’, the festival celebrated on St. Joseph’s day in Valencia.

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Hexagonal stones at Giant’s Causeway

Word of the day: CHWEONGL, geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... ‘six-sided’, ‘hexagonal’, like these famous stones that form the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland.

Under each hexagonal stone on the site (there are around 40,000 of them), a long column of basalt extends down into the earth

Sarn Badrig far out at sea with some of the mountains of the north-west in the background

Word of the Day: Sarn Badrig geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html.... Today is St. Patrick’s Day, patron saint of Ireland. Sarn Badrig is the Welsh name for St. Patrick’s causeway which stretches out to sea near Harlech and is also one of several Welsh names for the Milky Way. (Photo: Ian Warburton)

Thatching straw along with some pegs and rods that ar used to secure it.

Word of the day: sgolp geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... 'thatching-rod, thatch-peg' There is not as much demand for them these days! See also 'sgilp' and take a look at the meanings listed under 'sgolpio'

Cartoon style drawing of a happy black cat surrounded by various items that have superstitions attached to them, e.g. a four-leaf clover, a broken mirror, a horseshoe, &c.

Word of the day: ofergoel geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html...
Ofer (worthless) + coel (belief), ‘superstition, vain belief’. Those of us that are superstitious believe Friday the 13th to be an unlucky day. Don’t walk under any ladders today, just in case ....!

Electric kettle

Word of the Day tegell www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Vessel for boiling water (to make tea etc). Also tecell, tegel, tecel, tecil etc.

Weathered hewn stone

Word of the day: hindreulio ‘to weather’ www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html.... The picture shows hewn stone from the Old College building at Aberystwyth University, weathered by the elements.

A portrait of Iolo Morganwg created in 1800 with the words Edward Williams, Bardd Braint a Defod underneath

Word of the Day: amryddawn geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... i.e. multitalented, to describe Iolo Morganwg who was born on this date in 1747. He was a poet and antiquarian but also active in many other fields and a fervent campaigner for the abolition of slavery.

A display of expensive jewellery, including gemstone earrings, pearls, and a diamond tiara.

Word of the day: addurndlws (jewellery). www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Gemwaith is more familiar. There are some expensive examples in the photo!

8 porchell yn gorwedd ar wair / 8 young pigs laying on hay

Word of the Day: porchell (pl. porchellod, perchyll) geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... This name, meaning (young) pig or piglet, was first recorded in Llyfr Iorwerth in the 13th century and is borrowed from the Latin 'porcellus'. Other names for a young pig are 'banw' and 'mochyn bach' 🐷

A patient refusing the prescriptions of opposing doctors; satirizing Lord John Russell's refusal to take any further part in electoral reform

Word of the Day gwrthod www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... To refuse, reject, decline.

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