lliw

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *lliw, from Proto-Celtic *līwos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₃y- (“bluish”). Cognate with Breton liv, Cornish liw, and, more distantly, with Old English slāh (“sloe”) and Latin liveo (“to have bluish colour”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɬɪu̯/
  • Rhymes: -ɪu̯
  • Homophone: llyw (South Wales)

Noun

lliw m (plural lliwiau)

  1. colour
  2. paint, dye, colouring

Derived terms
  • cuddliw (“camouflage”)
  • ffugliw (“camouflage”)
  • lliwio (“to colour, to dye”)
  • lliwiog (“coloured, dyed”)
  • minlliw (“lipstick”)
  • trilliw (“tricolour”)

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

References
  1. Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 76 ix 1
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