Gair y wsnos! Word of the week! tambid = bloody hot. -œdd 'r'oul yn dambid 'eddi = the sun was bloody hot today.

There are some interesting terms here! Britain: The Greek geographer, explorer and astronomer Pytheas of Massalia left the first documented record of a name. He navigated to, and referred to, the Prettanike nesoi, Πρετανικαι νησοι - generally understood as 'the isles of the painted people'.

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! bathotyn = medal, badge -ma nw 'di 'nill lot o fathotyna wythnos ma = they have won a lot of medals [across] this last week.

Gîra'r dydd! Words of the day! distraught = anwyllig shocked = echrydu confused = syrddanu

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! barn = action of judging, judgement, decision, verdict. -Fe ddaw barn arnot ti = There will be a judgement on you

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! clinc - a bad habit; an evil way to be; a foul principle -wff... na'r glinc! = wow... that's a bad habit! -'r'en glinc = old Nick; the devil himself.

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! rwyfus = uneasy -ma syfyllfa'n rwyfus = the situation is uneasy

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! Yfar = to toast someone's health -pwy sy'n wneud 'r'yfar? = who is doing the toast?

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! tyfu = to grow; to develop -ma ddysgwyr yn tyfu = the learners are growing 🙂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! iapach = to jibber away incessantly; to yap without making much sense -ma fa'n iapach 'to = he is jibbering away incessantly again. 😵

Gair y dydd. Word of the day. ryfal = war -ma na ryfal 'no = there is a war (over) there

Gîra'r dydd! Words of the day! Cæ = enclosed field Mæs = open field @eisteddfod.cymru rwpath i ragystyro am y dyfodol 😉

So... we've been doing some work on local place names. Here's an interesting one. Cæ Tomla. Cæ - enclosed field Tom <- Twmp - lump(s) La <- Lle - place The field with lump(s) in..... So it's likely the were something like burial mounds in before the houses were built there!

Gair y wsnos. Word of the week. Arswdoldab = Awfulness -ma na lot o arswdoldab obutu = there's a lot of awfulness about

Newyddion! ma Eisteddfod yr Urdd yn dod i Sir Fynwy blwyddyn nesa (Casnewydd)! Y tro cyntaf yma! News! The Urdd Eisteddfod is coming to the Gwent area next year (Newport)! First time here! The fundraiser is here if you could help with it.... justgiving.com/campaign/eiste… Dera mlæn!

Here in the SE it can also be: worm = llyngyr 🐛😁

Or in #Wenhwyseg - atarn drutw 😁 More info about our feathered friends: @rspbcymru.bsky.social

With no disrespect to the post below, this is another inaccurate map of the Roman road network of Wales. Both this and the recently publicised digital atlas of ancient roads leaves out roads confirmed in Wales 30 years ago Still old (2011) - but better is this map... cadw.gov.wales/sites/defaul...

This is apparently the Roman Road infrastructure of Cymru.

Blwyddyn Newydd Ddæ!

'Dolig Difyr! Merry Christmas!

From Elfed in 1916, here's Carolau Nadolig.

How to train your dog!

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! trimins = (Christmas) decorations -ma na siaw o drimins! = that's quite the show of decorations

In case anyone's wondering about the Calennig...... museum.wales/articles/118...

From the pen of Isaac R Jones (Rhuddonian) in Mountain Ash in 1908, we bring you a cyfarchiad Nadolig - a Christmas Greeting.

The Cardiff Times in 1908 told us how to make Christmas Pudding......

Wetiad y dydd! Expression of the day! cario'r gath = to fold your arms across the chest (often to express disagreement). literally - 'to carry the cat'

Today apparently marks the anniversary of the first elected woman mayor in Wales - Gwenllian Morgan, in 1910. breconstory.wales/stories/1st-woman-mayor-of-brecon artuk.org/discover/art...

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! dywanu = to skulk; to scamper -dywanu ffwrdd ys leidr = to skulk away like a thief. -ddywana cyn gynted a galla = i will scamper as fast as i am able to

We like the idea of this - but would far prefer 'trwydded teithio' as the official title - it's far more poetic.

#OTD 1839 • The Chartist Uprising at Newport 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Reports suggest that some seven or eight thousand men marched on the Westgate Hotel. It is thought that around 50 were injured and some 22 of the Chartists were killed. www.peoplescollection.wales/content/newp... #Wales ##History

So upcoming is Nos Calan Gæf...... Spirits are supposed to come visit from darkness for the next day, and bonfires were supposed to be held on the next night to help their passage. Here in the SE, you may be visited by the Lêdi Wen. Bonfires were supposed to divine the future.

Today (26 October) is the feast day of Saint Gwynnog. Saint Gwynnog was the son of Saint Gildas, who was in turn the son of King Caw. He settled in Cornwall, where he is known as Winnoc, and Pinnock, and Winnow.

Gair y dydd! word of the day! isffordd = underground way, tunnel, subway t.co/iMfaUFgcvB

We pronounce things quite similarly to the NW..... But our grammar is nicer 😉

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! Ffæ = beans Ffafen = bean -Nei di pico'r ffæ? = Will you go and pick the beans?

Celtic languages in the 1880s.

The coming Monday is the Autumn Equinox. In Cymraeg, this can be referred to as: Alban Elfed It was traditional here in the South East to hold an Eisteddfod to mark the occasion - as can be seen here in 1872.

The original tribe in the South East of Cymru were the Silures. The Roman invasion of the other parts of Britain began in AD43. Having swept across the tribes, Ostorius encountered the local inhabitants in AD48. The Silures remained undefeated, despite 30 years of attempts.

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! Sarrug = surly, sullen, sour -Menw sarrug œdd 'i = she was a sour woman

Ha! We can go soooooo much shorter. wn i'm 😀

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! tawnt = stubbornness -œdd tawnt arswdus arni = she was terribly stubborn (lit. there was a terrible stubbornness on her)

Does the red bit not contain the Lake District? 🤔

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! misgu = to take apart -ma nw'n misgu'r maes = they are taking apart the [contents of] field

rwpath am y Satwrn!

Ni ar daith 'eddi! #Steddfod2025

Gair y dydd! Word of the day! sbelan = to take a break, have a rest -o'n ni'n sbelan trw'r wsnos dwetha! = we were taking a break through the last week!