{"id":11721,"date":"2015-09-26T12:28:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T11:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11721"},"modified":"2015-09-26T12:28:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T11:28:46","slug":"custard-sandwiches-and-pancakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11721","title":{"rendered":"Custard sandwiches and pancakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/brechdan.gif\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Sniglet - any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Welsh word for sandwich is <strong>brechdan<\/strong> [\u02c8br\u025bxdan], which comes from the Irish word <em>brecht\u00e1n<\/em> (butter, fat), according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/geiriadur.ac.uk\/gpc\/gpc.html\">Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>However according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceantar.org\/Dicts\/MB2\/mb05.html\">MacBain&#8217;s Dictionary<\/a>, is related to the Scottish Gaelic word for pancake, <em>breacag<\/em>, which is related to <em>breachdan<\/em> (custard), which comes from the Middle Irish <em>breacht\u00e1n<\/em> (a roll), which is related to the Welsh words <em>brithog<\/em> (mottled, variegated, multi-coloured, speckled, fine) and <em>brith<\/em> (marked with different colours, variegated, coloured, chequered, mottled, pied, spotted, speckled, brindled, grey), which are related to the word word <em>breac<\/em> (speckled) in Irish and Scottish Gaelic.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/geiriadur.ac.uk\/gpc\/gpc.html\">Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a>, <em>brechdan<\/em> is a sandwich, and also a slice of bread and butter; sandwich; cake or shortbread. <\/p>\n<p>There are also a number of interesting types of sandwich in Welsh:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; brechdan fawd \/ gorddi = slice of bread on which butter is spread with the thumb<br \/>\n&#8211; brechdan gaerog \/ ddwbl \/ linsi \/ fetal \/ deiliwr = an oatcake on a slice of buttered white bread or between two slices of white bread<br \/>\n&#8211; brechdan grasu = toast, toasted sandwich<br \/>\n&#8211; brechdan i aros pryd = slice of bread and butter to carry on with until the next meal, snack<br \/>\n&#8211; brechdan doddion = slice of bread spread with dripping<br \/>\n&#8211; brechdan driagl \/ driog = slice of bread spread with treacle<\/p>\n<p>For details of the origins of the word sandwich, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10507\">Sandwiches and Portsmouths<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Welsh word for sandwich is brechdan [\u02c8br\u025bxdan], which comes from the Irish word brecht\u00e1n (butter, fat), according to the Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru. However according to MacBain&#8217;s Dictionary, is related to the Scottish Gaelic word for pancake, breacag, which is related to breachdan (custard), which comes from the Middle Irish breacht\u00e1n (a roll), which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,127,10,56,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-irish","category-language","category-scottish-gaelic","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}