gwallt

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *gwollt, from Proto-Celtic *woltos.

Cognates
See also Cornish gols, Old Breton guolt, Irish folt, from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (compare English wold, Lithuanian váltis (“oat awn”), Serbo-Croatian vlȃt (“ear (of wheat)”), Ancient Greek λάσιος (lásios, “hairy”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

gwallt m (plural gwalltiau)

  1. hair (on head, collectively)

Derived terms

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.
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