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Yesterday I climbed Snowdon with other members of the Bangor Ukulele Society. We set off from Pen-y-Pass<\/a> (The head\/top of the pass) and took the Miner’s Track<\/a> to the top, then went down the Llanberis Path<\/a>. On the way up and the way down we stopped a number of times to sing a few songs, and got a bit of an audience in places.<\/p>\n The name Snowdon comes from the Old English for “snow hill”, and the Welsh name \u2013 Yr Wyddfa<\/em> [\u0259\u027e \u02c8w\u0268\u031e\u00f0va] \u2013 means “the tumulus” or “burial mound”. According to legend a giant known as Rhitta Gawr was buried there after being defeated by King Arthur [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n Snowdonia, the region in which Snowdon sits, is known as yr Eryri<\/em> [\u0259\u027e \u025br\u02c8\u0259r\u026a] in Welsh. I was told yesterday that this comes from the word eryr<\/em> (eagle) so is poetically translated as “The Land of the Eagles”. However this is apparently a folk etymology and it actually comes from the Latin word or\u012br\u012b<\/em>, from or\u012bor<\/em> (to rise, get up, appear, exist) and means highland or upland [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n The Latin word or\u012bor<\/em> comes from the Proto-Indo-European *(H)r \u030a-nw-<\/em> \u200e(to flow, move, run), which is also the root of the Middle Irish rian<\/em> \u200e(river, way), the Old Church Slavonic reka<\/em> \u200e(river), the Latin rivus<\/em> \u200e(stream), the Sanskrit \u090b\u0924\u093f \u200e(\u1e5bti – course, way), and the Gaulish *Renos<\/em> \u200e(that which flows), which is where the name of the river Rhine comes from [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday I climbed Snowdon with other members of the Bangor Ukulele Society. We set off from Pen-y-Pass (The head\/top of the pass) and took the Miner’s Track to the top, then went down the Llanberis Path. On the way up and the way down we stopped a number of times to sing a few songs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,15,45,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-proto-indo-european","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12421","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=12421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}