Why Are Welsh Language Words So Unique? 10 Examples Explained.

[@Severienne]

Enjoyed the Welsh in nature, would like more. :)

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you.

[@TroyTempest0]

Thanks Ben - diolch yn fawr. Really enjoyed your vid - you certainly provided!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Croeso, a diolch am wylio. 1st comment!

[@gandolfthorstefn1780]

Great to hear you siarad Cymraeg Ben.👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@dannyyyXYZ]

I liked this video, very interesting!

[@cliftonfurney5083]

This is awesome. Thanks

[@BenLlywelyn]

Croeso. Welcome.

[@ChorltonBrook]

After watching several videos about Ukrainian history lately I can see that Wales’s has many similarities when it comes to cultural ‘defence’. I’m glad Wales & her people are surviving, maybe even prospering compared to what happened in the past. Thanks for the video, it shows me that peace can lead to a flowering. God bless Wales & Slava Ukraine 😉

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you and best wishes upon Ukraine's heroes.

[@NatSatFat]

Another Good Vid, I am thoroughly impresssed with your indepth knowledge of loads of welsh obscure words, (you have not had a lifetime of research), What are you doing on Kelvey Hill in Swansea, I thought you were totaly hanging around Conwy? ah well its a nice change to be down South.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Moved south.

[@NatSatFat]

Way to go Ben, You have "Reborned" yourself through everything North Welsh, now your going down the proper South? hope you love it! ( I dislike the remains "everywhere" of the terrible Industrialisation of the South), but no matter, FAB for you, I bet you went to Swansea? looking forward to more stuff from you there.

[@Forsthman64]

Very informative. Thank you! How do you get all this information?

[@BenLlywelyn]

I studied Welsh at university.

[@Forsthman64]

@@BenLlywelyn Presumably that comes with all the history and everything, then... I thought it would focus mostly on the language and the evils of the British Empire in this day and age. Glad to know there is at least some tradition still taught in our houses of higher learning.

[@fics-il3qn]

Hvala!🤩👍

[@BenLlywelyn]

Cheers.

[@wookie2222]

If there is something like a 'Welsh tourism bord' they should support you financially. From a european point of view, Wales seems a bit like the backyard of a golf club that has only opened in rainy weather. But your videos - especially the more outsidesy ones - always make me want to visit Wales sometimes in the future and just suck in the history and energy of that country.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Send them my way. Need to support this channel!

[@schweinehund3497]

Love this! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg and it's a lot of fun! I would love to move to Wales but I haven't found a fitting worker visa yet. I totally supported Brexit back in the day because I (like many brits) saw this as a chance to stop getting swamped with third world immigrants and the culture war it brings. Now I'm having a hard time moving to this place I love. Enjoy it for the both of us!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Dal ati (Keep at it!).

[@fintonmainz7845]

A bit strange not to compare them to other celtic languages

[@BenLlywelyn]

Have a few videos on that.

[@fintonmainz7845]

@@BenLlywelyn thanks

[@AMOGLES99]

I always thought awyren was a mispronunciation of avion. In France sometimes young children will say something like aviron, so the injection of the r is credible.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Fascinating.

[@ftumschk]

The "r" isn't an insertion, but intrinsic to "awyr" (air) which is the active part of "awyren" (awyr + en). The terminating "-en" often crops up in Welsh (e.g lloer-en, ser-en; coed-en; gwenyn-en... etc)

[@angusmurray3767]

Actually the welsh word for Ireland has nothing to do with the ocean as you claim. It actually derives from iwerddon - fertile, green place, ground and later misinterpreted as Y Werddon by folk etymology - "the green spot". (Today Y Werddon means oasis).

[@BenLlywelyn]

My own theory verses someone else's theory. Gwerdd came into Welsh later - it was glas.

[@DucadiLanza]

Più di duemila anni di retroterra culturale e di reciproche influenze rendono il gallese una delle lingue più interessanti... Cymru am byth cymraeg yn byw!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Cymru am byth.

[@mimisor66]

14:21 sounds like congregation

[@aleksandarnikolic2743]

Mor- more(Slavic(sea))

[@sicko_the_ew]

You got aeroplane wrong. :D

[@BenLlywelyn]

But Red Hot Chili Peppers are still good.

[@Glaschu1]

Good video, but you said that Welsh is the only language on the Atlantic seaboard with a name for the Atlantic not based on a Mediterranean prestige language. What about An Cuan Siar in Gàidhlig? Literally “the western ocean”

[@BenLlywelyn]

Aigéan Atlantach... Irish. But Scots Gaelic has Cuan Siar. Good one.

[@Glaschu1]

@@BenLlywelyn I don’t have Irish; but I’d be shocked if they don’t have something similar to An Cuan Siar, even if only in some dialects

[@LindseyHolmes-d9r]

diolch yn fawr !

[@MrRosebeing]

Because it's Welsh, and not, say, Spanish? I'm mainly being wynebol, though. I can't speak Welsh fluently.

[@ozzbow3507]

I think..The more "unique"....the languages..? The older they actually are. Far greater and older than modern historical narratives or counterfeit events, want us more simplified dosiles to know just how far the term "ancient" actually goes!! It's called Gnostisism!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Sumerian was spoken 6,000 years ago. Later kings boast of speaking it with references to even older peoples. We have no idea how old we are.

[@davegraham7550]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopaedia_Cambrensis That is a lot of pages.. and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Owen_Pughe "Pughe's influence on Welsh orthography is now generally considered as negative. "

[@fredericosampaio6457]

Am hyfryd olygfa, Ben!!!! Hoffa i haf a haul llawr o olau i ti 🌅

[@BenLlywelyn]

Diolch yn fawr Frederico. Mae angen mwynhau tywydd da tra bo yno!

[@ftumschk]

8:58 You're quite right about the etymology of gwyddbwyll, but in my alternative universe it derives from gŵydd + pwyll = "careful goose" ;)

[@BenLlywelyn]

Cute.

[@DucadiLanza]

Il fatto che il gallese abbia una parola specifica per dire scacchi è estremamente significativo...

[@ftumschk]

@@DucadiLanza Actually, gwyddbwyll was originally the name for an ancient Welsh board-game, which is no longer played. At some point, presumably when the old game had faded into obscurity, its name was "recycled" as the Welsh word for chess.

[@DucadiLanza]

@@ftumschk ludus latrunculorum forse... In uso presso i militari romani... Ma non si può esserne certi potrebbe anche essere l' antico chaturanga...

[@DucadiLanza]

@@ftumschk Diolch am eich ateb ac adborth caredig....