...and fishes like shiny

...and fishes like shiny

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Doris Day and Jack The Ripper.

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Fe sylwais i ar lawer o walchwyfynod hofran yr haf yma yn ymweld â basgedi crog ac yn bwydo ar flodau gwyddfid yn Lerpwl. Maen nhw wir yn edrych fel adar bach y si.

GPC Welsh Dictionary@gpcwelshdictionary.bsky.social

Word of the day: gwyfyn (moth) geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... Gwyfyn can also refer to a woodworm, a weevil, or a mite. This hummingbird hawk-moth was spotted outside GPC and @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social's office yesterday. You can see how it could easily be mistaken for a real hummingbird!

Mae 'na air Cernyweg balindromig neis yn cael ei arddangos yma, nad oes gennym air cyfatebol iddo yn y Gymraeg i bob pwrpas. | Nice palindromic Cornish word shown here which doesn't really have a Welsh equivalent. Wojow = "afters" #Cornish #Kernewek #Welsh #Cymraeg #langsky

Mapologies@mapologies.bsky.social

mapologies.com/cooking/ Dessert is an international word you’ll find across many languages and it’s shared in meaning even when the food itself varies. Like many culinary terms, its roots trace back to French. The verb desservir referred to something like the removal of plates after a meal.

Common ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) CY: llysiau'r gingroen KY: madras bras Yellow corydalis (Pseudofumaria lutea) CY: mwg-y-ddaear melyn Oilseed rape (Brassica napus) CY: rêp; erfinen yr ŷd; bresych yr ŷd KW: ervinik; kedhow gwel #WildflowerHour: 8-9pm every Sunday / bob dydd Sul #Cymraeg #Kernewek

Ivy-leaved toadflax (Cymbalaria muralis) CY: trwyn-y-llo dail eiddew; llin y fagwyr KW: linen magor Common vetch (Vicia sativa) CY: ffugbysen wyllt KW: gwegbys an park Goosegrass (Galium aparine) CY: llau'r offeiriad KW: les serghek byghan #WildflowerHour: 8-9pm bob dydd Sul. #Cymraeg #Kernewek

Triaglog coch yn tyfu ar wal y bont dros gamlas Leeds-Lerpwl. ​Mae'n rhywogaeth estron sy eisoes wedi ymsefydlu yn y gwyllt. Fe'i gelwir yn 'pennow medhow' (drunkard) yn Gernyweg yr un peth â'i enw cyffredin Saesneg. Red valerian (Centranthus ruber) growing on canal wall #Cymraeg #Kernewek #langsky

Gwelais y rhestr hon o blanhigion yn llên gwerin o Gernyw a meddyliais y byddwn yn ychwanegu’r cyfatebiaethau yn #Gymraeg, #Llydaweg a #Ffrangeg. I saw this list of #Cornish folklore plants and thought I'd add the #Welsh, #Breton, #French equivalents. #langsky #Cymraeg #Kernewek #Brezhoneg #Français

Gwelais y rhestr hon o blanhigion yn llên gwerin o Gernyw a meddyliais y byddwn yn ychwanegu’r cyfatebiaethau yn #Gymraeg, #Llydaweg a #Ffrangeg. I saw this list of #Cornish folklore plants and thought I'd add the #Welsh, #Breton, #French equivalents. #langsky #Cymraeg #Kernewek #Brezhoneg #Français

Gwelais y rhestr hon o blanhigion yn llên gwerin o Gernyw a meddyliais y byddwn yn ychwanegu’r cyfatebiaethau yn #Gymraeg, #Llydaweg a #Ffrangeg. I saw this list of #Cornish folklore plants and thought I'd add the #Welsh, #Breton, #French equivalents. #langsky #Cymraeg #Kernewek #Brezhoneg #Français

The dictionary says 'bothen' (another #Cornish name for the corn-marigold) is "from an unidentified root". But it seems like a bit of a coincidence that one of the names used for the same plant in Old English is "boþen"? The #Breton example 'bozenn' listed is supposedly from 'buc'h' (cow). #langsky

Can't find a #Kernewek word for "dill" (Anethum graveolens). Thought I'd strike it lucky looking in bible translations of Isaiah 28 "Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge" in the #Cornish bible (Ysay 28) but it uses "fenogel" (fennel) instead as "dill" isn't consistently translated. #langsky

Mapologies@mapologies.bsky.social

The first group is Germanic-derived, giving English, German and Swedish "dill". This root also appears in some non‑Germanic languages, for example Latvian dilles. mapologies.com/herbs/