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Rhys, Guto, “Afon Clwyd: cynnig geirdarddiaethol newydd”, Studia Celtica 52 (2018): 179–182.
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“Afon Clwyd: cynnig geirdarddiaethol newydd”
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Ym 1945 cynigiodd Ifor Williams yn betrus fod enw afon Clwyd i'w egluro oherwydd yr arfer o osod clwydau ynddi. Byddai hyn yn deipolegol anarferol gan nad yw afonydd Celtaidd mawrion yn dwyn enwau gwrthrychau o'r fath. Cynigir yma ei fod yn deillio o'r un gwreiddyn Indo-Ewropeg ond gyda'r ystyr afon â nifer o droeon neu un rymus sy'n cludo.
In 1945 Ifor Williams tentatively suggested that the name of the river Clwyd in north-east Wales was to be explained as deriving from its homographic common-noun which means a hurdle. This would be typologically curious as large Celtic rivers do not bear the names of such objects. Here it is argued that it may derive from the same Indo-European root with the sense of a meandering river or a powerful one.
In 1945 Ifor Williams tentatively suggested that the name of the river Clwyd in north-east Wales was to be explained as deriving from its homographic common-noun which means a hurdle. This would be typologically curious as large Celtic rivers do not bear the names of such objects. Here it is argued that it may derive from the same Indo-European root with the sense of a meandering river or a powerful one.
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