We went on a treasure hunt this morning.\u00a0We were supposed to go yesterday afternoon, but\u00a0it was raining (surprise, surprise!). Fortunately the sun came out today, at least for a while.\u00a0I saw bits of Lampeter I hadn’t seen before and learnt a bit about its history. The treasure was some chocolates, which we all shared.<\/p>\n
In class this afternoon we played a number of Welsh games, including G\u00eam yr Eisteddfod<\/em> and trilingual (Welsh\/Breton\/Irish) dominoes. The dominoes had pictures of animals on them with their names in the three languages. Some of the names that really caught my eye were gwas y neidr<\/em> (lit. “snake’s servant”)\u00a0– dragonfly, gl\u00f6yn byw<\/em> (lit. “living coal”)\u00a0– butterfly, and bilidowcar<\/em> – cormorant.<\/p>\n Another word for dragonfly is gwachell y neidr<\/em> (“snake’s knitting-needle”), and there are many words in Welsh for butterfly, including i\u00e2r fach yr haf<\/em> (“little summer hen”), pili-pala<\/em> and bili-bala<\/em>. Other words for cormorant are morfran<\/em> (“sea crow”), mulfran<\/em> (“ We went on a treasure hunt this morning.\u00a0We were supposed to go yesterday afternoon, but\u00a0it was raining (surprise, surprise!). Fortunately the sun came out today, at least for a while.\u00a0I saw bits of Lampeter I hadn’t seen before and learnt a bit about its history. The treasure was some chocolates, which we all shared. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}sad<\/strike> mule\u00a0crow”), llanciau Llandudno<\/em> (“bachelors of Llandudno”) and wil wal waliog<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"