pedryn Leach

Welsh

Etymology

pedryn (“petrel”) + named after William Elford Leach (1791–1836), English zoologist and marine biologist.

Noun

pedryn Leach m (plural pedrynod Leach)

  1. Ellipsis of pedryn drycin Leach (“Leach's storm petrel”)[1]

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
pedryn Leach bedryn Leach mhedryn Leach phedryn Leach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Peter Hayman, Rob Hume (2004) Iolo Williams, transl., Llyfr Adar Iolo Williams: Cymru ac Ewrop (in Welsh), Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, →ISBN, page 12
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