Cuddle is an example of a false friend or cognate – it has one meaning in English (to hold (sb or sth) close; a close embrace) and one in Welsh (a hiding place). The pronunciation is different in each language: in English it\u2019s \/\u02c8k\u028cd.l\u0323\/ and in Welsh it\u2019s \/\u02c8k\u0268\u00f0l\u025b\/ or \/\u02c8k\u026a\u00f0l\u025b\/.<\/p>\n
The English word is a variant or cull or coll (to embrace,) which possibly comes from the Middle English couthelen<\/em> from couth<\/em> (known).<\/p>\n The Welsh word comes from cudd<\/em> (hiding, concealment, hiding place; concealed, hidden) and lle<\/em> (place).<\/p>\n Related words include: Cuddle is an example of a false friend or cognate – it has one meaning in English (to hold (sb or sth) close; a close embrace) and one in Welsh (a hiding place). The pronunciation is different in each language: in English it\u2019s \/\u02c8k\u028cd.l\u0323\/ and in Welsh it\u2019s \/\u02c8k\u0268\u00f0l\u025b\/ or \/\u02c8k\u026a\u00f0l\u025b\/. The English word is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","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=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ncuddfa \/ cuddfan<\/em> – hiding place, retreat, hoard
\ncuddiad<\/em> – concealment
\ncuddiedig<\/em> – hidden, concealed
\ncuddio<\/em> – to hide, cover, bury
\ncuddiwr<\/em> – hider
\ncuddlen<\/em> – curtain, veil
\ncuddserc<\/em>h – fondness, affection
\ncuddswyddog<\/em> – detective<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"