rhawn

Welsh

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Brythonic *rrọn (“horsehair”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *(ɸ)rānos (“mane”).[2] Compare Irish rón (“long hair as from an animal's tail”), Middle Irish róinne, rúainne (“a single hair”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /r̥au̯n/

Noun

rhawn m (collective, singulative rhawnyn)
rhawn f (collective, singulative rhawnen)

  1. horsehair, bristles, long coarse animal hair
    Synonym: gwrych

Derived terms
  • marchrawn (“horsetails”)
  • rhawn y gaseg (“mare's-tail”)

Adjective

rhawn (feminine singular rhawn, plural rhawn, not comparable)

  1. made of horsehair
  2. (of harp) strung with horsehair

Derived terms
  • crys rhawn (“hairshirt”)

Noun

rhawn m (plural rhoniau)[3]

  1. tail
    Synonym: cynffon
  2. (in the plural) coarse wool on a sheep's buttocks
    Synonym: gwlan rhoniau

Derived terms
  • rhonell (“tail, dock”)
  • gwlan rhoniau (“tail wool”)

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

References
  1. Pedersen, Holger (1909) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume I, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 49
  2. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 306
  3. R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “rhawn”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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