rhawn

Welsh

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Brythonic *rrọn (“horsehair”), from Proto-Celtic *(ɸ)rānos (“mane”). Compare Irish rón (“long hair as from an animal's tail”), Middle Irish róinne, rúainne (“a single hair”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r̥au̯n/

Noun

rhawn m (collective, singulative rhawnyn)
rhawn f (collective, singulative rhawnen)

1. horsehair, bristles, long coarse animal hair

   Synonym: gwrych

Derived terms

• marchrawn (“horsetails”)
• rhawn y gaseg (“mare's-tail”)

Adjective

rhawn (feminine singular rhawn, plural rhawn, not comparable)

1. made of horsehair
2. (of harp) strung with horsehair

Derived terms

• crys rhawn (“hairshirt”)

Noun

rhawn m (plural rhoniau)

1. tail

   Synonym: cynffon

2. (in the plural) coarse wool on a sheep's buttocks

   Synonym: gwlan rhoniau

Derived terms

• rhonell (“tail, dock”)
• gwlan rhoniau (“tail wool”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
rhawn	rawn	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.