esgid

Welsh

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ped-skuH-t-, from *ped- (“foot”) + *(s)kewH- (“to cover”); the former component is cognate with English foot, and the latter with Ancient Greek σκῦτος (skûtos, “skin, hide”).[1] Direct cognate with Cornish eskis (“shoe”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɛsɡɪd/, [ˈɛskɪd]

Noun

esgid f (plural esgidiau)

  1. shoe
    Mi gaeth o esgidiau rhedeg newydd cyn y ras.
    He got new running shoes before the race.
  2. boot

Derived terms
  • esgid ymarfer

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
esgid unchanged unchanged hesgid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “esgid”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  1. George Sherman Lane (1931) “Words for Clothing in the Principal Indo-European Languages”, in Language‎, volume 7, number 3, Linguistic Society of America, →DOI, page 35 of 3‒44
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