This section provides translations for some of the words you will come
across when walking in the Welsh mountains. You will find that Welsh is a very
descriptive language, and that many of the names translate to describe a
feature of the landscape.
A
aber
mouth of river, estuary
allt
height
afon
river
B
bedd
grave
betws
chapel
bach
small
bangor
monastery
bera
pyramid
braich
arm, branch, handle, headland
bryn
hill
bwlch
gap,pass
C
cae
field, fence, hedge
cadair
chair
capel
chapel
carnedd
cairn, pile of stones
castell
castle
cefn
back, support
coch
red
coed
wood
clogwyn
cliff, crag, precipice
craig
rock
cwm
valley
D
dinas
city
drum
ridge
drws
door
du
black
dyffryn
valley
F
fach
small
fawr
large
ffordd
road
ffynnon
fountain, well, spring
G
gallt
wooded slope
garth
hill
glas
blue, green, grey, silver
glyder
heap
gribin
sertated ridge
gwrach
witch
gwynt
wind
H
hebog
hawk, falcon
hir
long
LL
llan
church, village
llech
slate
llithrig
slippery
lloer
moon
llwyd
brown, gray, pale, hoary
llydaw
Brittany
llyn
lake
M
maen
stone
maes
field
march
horse, stalion
mawr
big
mochyn
pig
moel
hill
morfa
moor, fen, marsh
mynydd
mountain
N
O
P
pant
hollow, valley
pen
head, chief, end, top
penrhyn
cape, foreland
pistyll
spout
pont
bridge
R
rhaedr
waterfall
rhos
moor, heath, plain
rhyd
ford
T
tal
tall, high, lofty, end
twll
hole
U
W
wen
white
wyddfa
tumulus, buerial mound
Y
y
the
yn
in
ynys
island
ysgol
ladder, school
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