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Examples
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The rest of Hen'gwr's supposed paranormal abilities would be only so much topping on the cake. "
Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990
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Also, drud (expensive) and rhad (cheap) used to get mixed up, as did gwr (husband) and gwraig (wife) – not helped by their proximity in my course notes.
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Tasa ni wedi prynnu desgl lloeren, fe fydda ganddi dri o blant a gwr yn trio ei hel hi i'r stafall gefn i sbio ar y teledu bach, tra bo nhw'n isda o flaen y set fawr yn sbio ar WWF neu'r Simpsons.
Entourage Dyfrig 2008
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Tasa ni wedi prynnu desgl lloeren, fe fydda ganddi dri o blant a gwr yn trio ei hel hi i'r stafall gefn i sbio ar y teledu bach, tra bo nhw'n isda o flaen y set fawr yn sbio ar WWF neu'r Simpsons.
Archive 2008-02-01 Dyfrig 2008
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He told me that with all due submission, he thought he could give me a better, which he had heard from a very clever man, gwr deallus iawn, who lived about two miles from Llangollen on the Corwen road.
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“Did you ever hear of a gwr boneddig called Owen Glendower?”
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Jones told her that his companion, the gwr boneddig, meaning myself, had come in order to see the birth-place of Huw Morris, and that I was well acquainted with his works, having gotten them by heart in Lloegr, when a boy.
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“Croesaw! gwr boneddig, croesaw! many, many welcomes to you, gentleman!”
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“Madam, this gwr boneddig wishes to know the name of that moel, perhaps you can tell him.”
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Yn y Bala, ymhen ychydig, gwelai y fydwraig y gwr, sef tad y baban, a dechreuodd ei holi pa sut yr oeddynt yn Siambra Duon? pa fodd yr oedd y wraig?
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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