W.J.Hicks: Welsh adjectives

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

Cross Posted from Welsh-L.

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Harry,

Here's some from our list - they seem to pretty rare :


achul
alltud
amheuthun
amhur
anaraul
aneglur
anfynud
anghyfesur
anghymesur
anhydraul
araul
arddun
astud
aur
budur
cul
cun
cyfesur
cyflun
cyfun
cymesur
cywair-bur
deulun
di-ddweud
didostur
di-draul
difesur
digysur
dihun
di-lun
di-sut
disymud
diwarafun
eglur
ehud
esgud
esgymun
ffug
goachul
gwachul
gwneud
gwrthgymesur
gwrth-haul
gwrthlud
gwrthun
haerllug
hendraul
hirgul
hunaneglur
hydraul
hyglud
llymsur
llymun
minffug
mud
noethlymun
pur
sarrug
segur
seithug
sylladur
trwynsur
tun
wylun
ysgymun





Bill



Bill

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Bill Hicks
Canolfan Bedwyr
Prifysgol Cymru Bangor / University of Wales Bangor
Gwynedd
UK


>  > I'm looking for Welsh adjectives that end in orthographic <u> followed
>  > by a consonant, OTHER THAN those like 'hapus', 'parchus', 'gwybodus'
>  > that contain the suffix "-us". I don't have a reverse dictionary of
>  > Welsh (if such a thing even exists). Can anyone help me think of some?
>
>  > You might like to consult The Welsh Rhyming Dictionary (Yr Odliadur)
>  > so kindly donated by Andrew Hawke <ach at aber.ac.uk> over ten years ago
>  > (Nov 1891) to GAELIC-L, and preserved ever since, courtesy G-L, on the
>  > HEA (Higher Education Authority of Ireland) server
>  > LISTSERV at LISTSERV.HEANET.IE
>
>  The text of Yr Odliadur (Roy Stephens) is also available on the Web thanks
>  to Geraint Jones of Wolfson College Oxford, at
>  http://users.comlab.ox.ac.uk/geraint.jones/gwasg.aredig/odliadur.
>
>  Another, perhaps better, possibility would be Mark Nodine's online
>  dictionary, the Searching Lexicon
>  (http://www.cs.brown.edu/fun/welsh/LexiconForms.html), which can do quite
>  sophisticated "partial word" searches, ideal for cases like this.  To use
>  his example, the query string ^[cg]*i$ will find all the words that begin
>  with c or g and end with i.  Thus, the string ^*[u][bcdfglmnprst]$ should
>  find any word ending in u plus consonant (don't forget it will include a
>  lot
>  of diphthongs like au and eu too).  That will be a LOT of words, so perhaps
>  you a less ambitious search might be better to start with, perhaps one
>  consonant at a time.  I'm not sure whether there is any way you could build
>  in a "part of speech" criterion to make it give you only adjectives.
>  Perhaps ask the man himself: mark.nodine at mot.com I believe.  (Then again
>  you
>  could just copy the results into a text file and just search for the
>  "adj"s.)
>
>  Harry Campbell
>  --
>  GWYBODIADUR: A Welsh Informationary
>  ** http://gwybodiadur.tripod.com **
>




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