gwefus

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *webussu (compare Cornish gweus, Breton gweuz), compound of *we- (compare gwefl (“animal lip”)) and Proto-Celtic *bussu (“lip”) (compare Scottish Gaelic bus, Old Irish busóc (“kiss”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bus- (“to kiss”) (compare Latin bāsium (“kiss”), Lithuanian bučiúoti, Albanian buzë (“mouth”), Persian ⁧بوسیدن⁩ (bôsidan, “to kiss”)).

Noun

gwefus f (plural gwefusau)

  1. lip (on mouth)

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
gwefus wefus ngwefus unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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