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YngNghymru wrote:'Caledvlwch' is not spelt Welshly - it could be Cornish, since they have a similar spelling system but replace 'f' with 'v'. 'Caledflwch' is not a Welsh word, as far as I know - 'caled' means 'hard', though, and 'blwch' means box.
Incidentally, one of the consequences of the stress shift between Middle and Modern Welsh is that /au/ in the final syllable of polysyllabic words monophthongises. Thus, the modern form of Amlawdd would be Amlodd.
Æren wrote:But still, how to pronounce the second one?
YngNghymru wrote:'Caledvlwch' is not spelt Welshly - it could be Cornish, since they have a similar spelling system but replace 'f' with 'v'. 'Caledflwch' is not a Welsh word, as far as I know - 'caled' means 'hard', though, and 'blwch' means box.
YngNghymru wrote:It's a rendering error. The BBC page has trouble producing the characters <Ŷ ŷ> (that is, <y> with a circumflex or to bach - if the error's at your end you might still see them as thorn). Thorn, as far as I know, has never been used in Welsh, and if it ever was I highly doubt it would've been used for this particular sound.
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