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@@markjlewis sounds delicious! Try it with the bacon :)

@@davidchurch3472 yeah you're correct. Some people have pointed out to me it also means confluence

@@elainehazel4854 I bet that was delicious! Give the recipe a go, you'll probably enjoy it

@@paullee3660 totally agree!!

@@sparkyprojects Heya, blaen is more like "in front of" and since uploading this video a lot of people have pointed out that Aber also means confluence. Are there two rivers that come together up that way?

@@mrwelshmun Wow, i just looked at the map, there's the Afan, but there's also multiple streams feeding into it, one looks like it feeds in 2 places, you should take a look btw, i live in Caerau now, you said that Caer is fort, so what are the AU at the end ?

@sparkyprojects the AU at the end makes it plural. So Caer is one Fort. Caerau would be Forts. Yeah that makes sense in that case that it would be Aber.

@@wecanworkthisout7834 youre probably right. I've since been doing my family tree and managed to trace a few lines back to 1500 and I've traced one line back to 1050 (royal ancestor much to my amazement)

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@@mrwelshmun thank you, I will finally be able to tell them apart!

@@slwrabbits Cardigan corgi tend to come in darker colours too. Pembrokeshire's are mostly golden or fawn

Chwech cant?

@@mrwelshmun all depends on how you say it bt 😄😅👍

The real question is what came first? Rwan or Nawr? lol

@@mrwelshmun I think it has to be the North one tbh, South Welsh is more BBC Cymru whereas North is the old Welsh..... I think, I was born in Sherwood! 😄😅👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@@patrickrose1221 a see now I'm a Hwntw so I'd say South was first 😂

@@mrwelshmun 😆🤣😂👍

@@slwrabbits most likely! I've also since found out that most place names in the West of England that include "read" is an anglicisation of Welsh "Rhyd" as mentioned in the video

@@southerncomfortuk diolch!!

@@celestebishop1262 thank you. I have to reach a few certain milestones before I can put ads on.

@@brendaprice342 Dyffryn Cwm? Is that a real place?

@@mrwelshmun Yes, it's a cottage I've lived in since 1990. The deeds call it Duffryn Cwm but the council refer to it as Dyffryn Cwm.

@@brendaprice342 that's an interesting name. Did some looking for you, so a Cwm is a more Deepcut glacial valley and a Dyffryn is a longer more extensive valley. So I can only guess that your home is in a large deep valley?

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Caer may well have come from Caster, as the original word Dinas is very different. I personally think that it could have been a dialectal word that caught on. I say this because in Welsh (as other languages) You can have distinctly different words to mean the same thing depending on dialect. For example; Fox = Cadno (South Wales) Llwynog (West Wales) Madyn (North Wales) or Tree = Coed (Standard Welsh, North Welsh and West Welsh) Wydden (South Wales) I think Llan does mean both, but I think the enclosure only refers to the enclosure of the church yard. Yeah so Dylan, I would pronounce as Dull-Ann. Yeah I am South Walian, but I'm complicated. All my family are from South Wales, I grew up in West Wales, where I learned Welsh. But I'm back living in South Wales and My accent has totally changed from 10 years ago. You raise a very good point about the double L in Llewellyn and Tarell. The truth is I'm not sure. What I can tell you about Llewellyn is that there are spelling variations and the pronunciation may reflect that. So it can be spelled Llewellyn, Llewelyn and occasionally I've seen it spelled Llywelyn. Yeah, your comment about Wyddfa/Myfanwy. That's the correct way to say it. Although it's worth pointing out that Myfanwy is pronounced as Muvanwee in South Wales not Muvanooy. (It's not wrong just different) The same can be said for our word for Egg = Wy. Some pronounce it as Ooy. Some pronounce it as Wee. Neither are wrong, just regional differences. I personally would say Ooy.

@@mrwelshmun Wy for egg pronounced ooy seems cognate with the Middle English _ey_ (Dutch ei), and cockney - cock's egg). I am fascinated by the intermingling of Welsh and Latin/French, with such words as eglwys = église. Are there any resources that show timelines of the entanglement of the various parts of the Welsh language with others, as some bits of Welsh have been incorporated into later languages, and vice versa?

@@frogandspanner yeah. Another one I found from watching an Eddie Izzard documentary on Anglo Saxons. Boccan in Anglo Saxon means hefer or cow. And in Welsh is Buwch (bewe-ch) I couldn't find anything similar to it. There's definitely some influence there even if its small. I read somewhere ( I don't remember where) that the way we pronounce Rh, Ll nd Ch only evolved into its current form after contact with Norman French.

@@frogandspanner it's a very interesting topic to me. I don't know of any resources unfortunately. If I find out about any ill definitely be using them for videos

@@mrwelshmun I've subscribed so I don't miss out.

@@johnbristow8099 glad you enjoyed 😁

First place I thought of when he said “Aber” was Abertridwr….I was told Aber can mean ‘mouth of, estuary of, or confluence of’ water. Im assuming there must be hundreds of smaller tributaries of the river Usk and Aberhonddu refers to one of these….🤷🏼‍♂️

There are a couple of suggestions of where the name came from. Splott - meaning moorland ( not sure about that one) Or like you said (although I've heard it was being Bishop's plot and over time was shortened to Splott). There is upper and lower Splottlands.

Yeah there's historically been a problem with the Welsh language being sort of picked on. It's because in Victorian times there was a big push by the English to 'civilise' Wales and bring us into the modern world by making us speak English. The mentality still carries on with a lot of people, my grandfather included. Even though he's Welsh by blood and birth he's opposed to anyone speaking Welsh, just stuck in his ways as they say. Just try and learn as often as you can, I'm by no means an expert on Cymraeg, I'm second language. But I make these videos to try and encourage interest in the subject. I'm glad to see people like yourself are engaging with it! Diolch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@@mrwelshmun fabulous, mate, and I agree with every word you’ve just said. And yes, things were different back then, they tried to phase out the welsh language in some areas. In a way Mold actually did a good thing in having a welsh speaking senior school. Trouble was it was largely fed by a local welsh speaking primary school which gave six years of foundation in fluent welsh speaking. I’d missed out on all that too. Not sure if trying to catch up would have been an option, but I think it would have been tough. As you say, we will keep trying ourselves anyway, and your video is a great help, and interesting too on another level in the history of place names. And how Celtic words spread a lot further than Wales too. Cheers, all the best. 😊👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@@ComeJesusChrist yet another person. What does your rant have to do with the subject of my video? My video is about interpreting place names. Another thing, I don't work for the government or local authorities so I don't know what you're trying to achieve by complaining in the comment section on my video. I appreciate your viewership but you keep please keep your political/personal opinions out of it. Especially as they have absolutely nothing to do with the video

Very true. Often the place names are older than the modern place

As in a town has built up around it, if you get me?

And don't forget that SW.Scotalnd and NW England all have Welsh names from the Kingdom of Allt.Clud... So Glasgow comes from the Welsh Blue field (Glas cae),Edinburgh was Caer Edin.etc.Even Aberdeen has the Welsh 'Aber'.which proves that the Picts, too, were Brythonic speakers.

Yes. ‘Aber’ in Welsh mean both ‘estuary’ and ‘confluence.’

I'll have a look for that. Diolch!

@@NigelOwen-s8o cytuno!

The number of people that speak native Welsh in Britain is miniscule. All place names should be in both English and Welsh. Otherwise, it's distracting and unfriendly.

@@deankirby7237 : As a Welsh speaker I find English place names in Wales both distracting and disrespectful!

@@robertgriffith8857 So I was right all along.

@@deankirby7237 : Perhaps you have misread what I wrote - I find English translations of Welsh place names distracting - i.e. I don't want them!!

@@ioanstokowski1647 wow! Thank you so much. That's a lovely compliment 😆

@@timwatkins3271 glad to hear you're enjoying the content. Welsh is mostly phonetic so it's mostly pronounced as it's written. But yeah when you get into the word order and mutations it can be difficult

It's not that hard once you get into it.

The actual name of the community is Llanbadarn Fawr. The post office changed the name in Victorian times because they kept getting it mixed up with the place of the same name near Aberystwyth. So, it really doesn't matter whether they've put y Groes on the signs or not, because it's wrong anyway.

@@YDysgwrAraf I did live in Llandrindodwells as I SA it was locals who said the new Welsh name was wrong, my brother actually owned that post office your taking about,😂

Gate is the Viking term for a road. If you head to the the north and east of England, lots of streets have gate in their name instead of road or street. Maybe somebody decided that the English name needed this variation.

@@egbront1506 Nope. It's from the fact that it was a crossing of toll roads, so there were gates in all directions. That was the name of the junction. But the Victorian post office organisation decided to apply the name of the junction to the entire settlement, eschewing the original name. Later on, when Powys decided to put bilingual signs up, they translated Crossgates to y Groes (the Cross) rather than using the original name that was there staring them in the face. This, like the misspelling of Llandegle just up the road, is an act of cultural vandalism that will one day be corrected.

@@egbront1506 all I know is what locals told me it used to be a gated crossing, with four gates one for each road, probably to stop sheep going where they not supposed to 😂

@@johnkeepin7527 yeah there are quite a lot of Welsh/ Celtic names in the marches (Shropshire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire)

@@johnkeepin7527 I actually intend on making a video about it in the future. But the subject has been covered by a few others so not sure how to go at it.

There is also the “Hampshire” Avon, rises in Wiltshire, flows through Salisbury, the New Forest before entering the sea at Christchurch, Dorset

@@machendave River Afon = River River...............