Cymru : Wales
The FreeCEN Census
Project
The FreeCEN Project CD's have been freely loaned by the LDS |
Thursday, November 24, 2016
!!! Volunteers Urgently Required !!!
to help us Transcribe the Census.
If you or anyone you know would like to join us please contact me
by clicking on the following email link to
Brenda
Also you can click on any of the following links to go to that page
FreeCEN Statistics Brenda's FreeCEN Index Page |
Some Basic Welsh Meanings
If you wish to add to the following list please email me direct.
Welsh | Basic meaning | Welsh | Basic meaning | |
Aber |
a river mouth or confluence of waters |
Gwaelod | bottom or foundation | |
Aelwyd | hearth or home | Gwyn | white or holy | |
Afon | a river | Gwynt & wynt | wind | |
Allt | a hill | Hafod | summer dwelling or summer pasture | |
Awel | a breeze | Haul | the sun | |
Bach & Fach | small little | Hen | old | |
Bae | a bay | Hendre | winter dwelling | |
Betws | a house of prayer | Heulog | sunny | |
Blaen |
the source of a
river or head of a valley |
Hyfryd | pleasant agreeable delightful | |
Bodlon | satisfied content | Llan | a church or parish | |
Bron | the breast of a hill | Llyn | a lake or pool | |
Bryn | a hill | Llys | a hall court or palace | |
Buarth | farmyard | Maes | a field | |
Bwlch | a pass or gap | Mawr & Fawr | big large | |
Cae | a field | Melin | a mill | |
Caer & Gaer | a fort | Minffordd | the wayside | |
Canol | mid or centre | Mor | sea | |
Capel | a chapel | Morfa | sea marsh or bog | |
Caredig | kind | Mynydd | a mountain | |
Carreg | stone | Nant | a stream or brook | |
Cartref | abode residence | Newydd | new | |
Castell | a castle | Ochr | beside | |
Cefn | a ridge | Pant | hollow dent or valley | |
Celyn | holly | Pen | head top or end | |
Cloch | a bell | Pentre | a village | |
Coch & Goch | red | Perllan Berllan | an orchard | |
Coed | a wood | Pistyll | a waterfall | |
Craig & Graig | a rock outcrop or crag | Plas | mansion large house | |
Croes | a cross | Pont | a bridge | |
Cwm | a valley | Pwll | a pool | |
Derwen | oak | Rhestr | a row or line | |
Draw | yonder beyond | Rhos | moorland | |
Dyffryn | a valley | Rhyd | a ford | |
Dwr | water | Tan | under beneath | |
Eglwys | church | Teg | fair fine beautiful | |
Fan & Ban | summit peak | Terfyn | end or boundary | |
Ffordd | road | Tirion | gentle gracious | |
Ffydd | faith confidence or belief | Tre | a homestead or town | |
Ffynnon | a well | Ty | a house | |
Glan | river bank or seashore | Tyddyn | a small farm or smallholding | |
Glyn | a glen or valley | Ucha(f) | highest |