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gwallt

gwallt

Welsh

Noun

gwallt m (uncountable)

  1. hair (on head)

See also

Mutation

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

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *woltos (compare Cornish gols, Old Breton guolt, Irish folt), from Proto-Indo-European *u̯el(ə)- (compare English wold, Lithuanian váltis ‎(“oat awn”), Serbo-Croatian vlât ‎(“ear (of wheat)”), Ancient Greek λάσιος ‎(lásios, “hairy”)). Related to gwellt.

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