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Dych chi'n hoffi'r gŵydd a'r iâr?

Shaevor
Germany

Dych chi'n hoffi'r gŵydd a'r iâr?

Post by Shaevor »

Dych chi'n hoffi'r gŵydd a'r iâr?

Why is it gŵydd instead of ŵydd? According to wiktionary, the word gŵydd with the meaning of "goose" is female, so I thought it needs a soft mutation after "'r".
Is it actually male (in some dialects), or is there some grammatical aspect going on that I'm not aware of?

val
Wales

Re: Dych chi'n hoffi'r gŵydd a'r iâr?

Post by val »

According to gweiadur.com gŵydd is feminine when it means goose, but masculine when it means presence or face.
(I am only a learner...).
So it's possible that where you typed the question is simply confused...

AnomalousCowherd
Great Britain

Re: Dych chi'n hoffi'r gŵydd a'r iâr?

Post by AnomalousCowherd »

I was doing a bit of half-baked research on this, and the consensus seems to be that "all feminine nouns mutate after yr, except the ones that don't". I've seen scholarly papers which use y gŵydd, and others which use yr wydd. Welsh Twitterverse seems to use both. I asked one Welsh friend and got one answer, and another Welsh friend and got the other.

I'm tempted to invite them both into a chat and ask them the same question again. It's always fun to watch them argue about Proper Welsh. :twisted:

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