The Welsh singer Jem did a cover of this song which was included in Music from the OC: Mix 2 soundtrack in 2004.

In the Welsh language who's origins, like Cornish is from the ancient British or Brythonic language line, ' Cist ' is also used for such ancient graves, but in modern use, can also mean a chest, a coffer, a box, or even the boot / trunk of a car.

Rarer lateral consonants include the retroflex laterals that can be found in most Indic languages and in some Swedish dialects, and the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative, found in many Native North American languages, Welsh and Zulu.

The Welsh Government and the National Assembly for Wales have more limited powers than those devolved to Scotland, although following the passing of the Government of Wales Act 2006 and the Welsh devolution referendum, 2011, the Assembly can now legislate in some areas through an Act of the National Assembly for Wales.

However, the story may well be apocryphal, as it can only be traced to the 16th century, and, in the time of Edward I, the English aristocracy spoke Norman French, not English ( some versions of the legend include lack of knowledge in both languages as a requirement, and one reported version has the very specific phrase " born on Welsh soil and speaking no other language ").

Demographically Gwynedd has the highest proportion of people in Wales who can speak Welsh.

In s. 2 of the Act each council formed for a county is allocated the respective English and Welsh descriptions of " County Council " or " Cyngor Sir ", each council formed for a County Borough is allocated the respective descriptions of " County Borough Council " or " Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol "; in all cases the shorter alternative forms " Council " or " Cyngor " can be used.

Though only Eleanor de Montfort can be definitively shown to have used the title, several consorts of native Welsh princes of Wales were theoretically princesses of Wales while their husbands were on the throne.

Professor Davies tells us that Gerald, whom he calls " an admirable story-teller ", is the only source for some of the most famous of the Welsh folk tales including the declaration of the old man of Pencader to Henry II which concludes Descriptio Cambriae: " This nation, O King, may now, as in former times, be harassed, and in a great measure weakened and destroyed by your and other powers, and it will also prevail by its laudable exertions, but it can never be totally subdued through the wrath of man, unless the wrath of God shall concur.

About 13 % of the population of Llandaff can read, write and speak Welsh, while 78 % have no knowledge.

Jones's style can be described as High Modernism ; the poem draws on literary influences from the 6th-century Welsh epic Y Gododdin to Thomas Malory's Morte d ' Arthur to try to make sense of the carnage he witnessed in the trenches.

The European Court of Justice can direct English and Welsh courts on the meaning of areas of law in which the EU has passed legislation.

The name Gwydion ( which should more properly be spelled Gwyddien in Modern Welsh, as can be adduced from its Old Welsh form Guidgen ; cognate with Old Irish Fidgen ) may be interpreted as " Born of Trees ".

A number of references to Gwydion can be found in early Welsh poetry.

A number of references to Lleu can be found in early Welsh poetry.

His name can be compared with the Old Irish gobae ~ gobann ‘ smith ,’ Middle Welsh gof ~ gofein ‘ smith ,’ Gallic gobedbi ‘ with the smiths ,’ Latin faber ‘ smith ’ and with the Lithuanian gabija ‘ sacred home fire ’ and Lithuanian gabus ‘ gifted, clever ’.

His name can be compared with the Old Irish gobae ~ gobann ‘ smith ,’ Middle Welsh gof ~ gofein ‘ smith ,’ Gallic gobedbi ‘ with the smiths ,’ Latin faber ‘ smith ’ and with the Lithuanian gabija ‘ sacred home fire ’ and Lithuanian gabus ‘ gifted, clever ’.

The name Penarddun can be translated as " Chief Beauty " or " Most Fair " ( Welsh pen " head, chief, foremost " + arddun " fair, beautiful ( of a girl )".

Like other heroes such as the Biblical Samson, Duryodhana in the Mahabharata and the Welsh Llew Llaw Gyffes, Cú Roí can only be killed in certain contrived circumstances, which vary in different versions of the story.

His name is rarely directly attested in inscriptions, but his importance can be inferred from place names and ethnonyms, and his nature and attributes are deduced from the distinctive iconography of Gallo-Roman inscriptions to Mercury, who is widely believed to have been identified with Lugus, and from the quasi-mythological narratives involving his later cognates, Irish Lugh Lámhfhada ( Lugh of the Long Arm ) and Welsh Lleu Llaw Gyffes ( Lleu of the Skillful Hand ).

Alone, the Welsh element dy can mean ‘ thy, thine ’ or rather ‘ your ’ ( singular ) but there is no gloss of this word meaning ‘ great ,’ as the most cursory glance at the Welsh dictionary proves.

The Welsh form Gwenhwyfar, which seems to be cognate with the Irish name Findabair, can be translated as The White Enchantress, or alternately The White Fay / Ghost, from Proto-Celtic * Uindo-" white, fair, holy " + * seibarV ( V = vowel ) " magic " ( cf.

At this time Miriam Noel appeared, urging on Constable Henry Pengally, whose name showed him to be a descendant of the Welsh settlers in the neighborhood.

Steel Company of Wales, a British steelmaker, wants to bring in Virginia coal, cut down on its takings of Welsh coal in order to be able to compete more effectively -- especially in foreign markets.

Virginia coal, delivered by ship in Wales, will be about $2.80 a ton cheaper than Welsh coal delivered by rail from nearby mines.

An Act of Parliament passed in the year 1563, entitled “ An Act for the Translating of the Bible and the Divine Service into the Welsh Tongue ,” ordered that the Old and New Testament, together with the Book of Common Prayer, were to be translated into Welsh.

Initially limited frequency space meant that Channel 4 could not be broadcast alongside S4C, though some English Channel 4 programmes would be aired at less popular times on the Welsh variant, a practice that carried on up until the closure of S4C's analogue transmissions in 2010.

Dylan, pronounced ˈdəlan ( Dullan ) in Welsh, caused his mother to worry he might be teased as the " dull one ".

Most Celticists consider Geoffrey's Caliburnus to be derivative of a lost Old Welsh text in which bwlch had not yet been lenited to fwlch.

These may be the lower lip against the upper teeth, in the case of ; the back of the tongue against the soft palate, in the case of German, the final consonant of Bach ; or the side of the tongue against the molars, in the case of Welsh, appearing twice in the name Llanelli.

" It may be derived from the Welsh pen gwyn " white head ", although the etymology is debated.

Usually this will be the only anthem sung, such as at national sporting events, and it will be sung only in Welsh using the first stanza and chorus and refrain.

The endonym Helvetii may be derived from the root elw that is seen in Welsh, meaning " gain " or " profit ," and the Old Irish prefix il -, meaning " many " or " multiple.

Rather than preaching revolution, Jones believed that an exodus from Wales was required and that a new Welsh colony should be founded in the United States.

Less likely is the commonly proposed derivation from Welsh arth " bear " + ( g ) wr " man " ( earlier * Arto-uiros in Brittonic ); there are phonological difficulties with this theory — notably that a Brittonic compound name * Arto-uiros should produce Old Welsh * Artgur and Middle / Modern Welsh * Arthwr and not Arthur ( in Welsh poetry the name is always spelled Arthur and is exclusively rhymed with words ending in-ur-never words ending in-wr-which confirms that the second element cannot be wr " man ").

A similar first name is Old Irish Artúr, which is believed to be derived directly from an early Old Welsh or Cumbric Artur.

The Welsh word " Maes ", meaning " field " or " area of activity "; it is typical for " maes " to be followed by an adjective, such as " fair field ", " Maes teg ".

In the late 1390s, a series of events occurred that began to push Owain towards rebellion, in what was later to be called the Welsh Revolt, the Glyndŵr Rising or the Last War of Independence.

Orel ( 2003 ) tentatively attaches plough to a PIE stem * blōkó -, which gave Armenian peɫem " to dig " and Welsh bwlch " crack ", though the word may not be of IE origin.

Talks with the Welsh began after the English lords Roger Mortimer and William de Briouze expanded into Welsh territory in 1195, causing a concern that the Welsh lord Rhys ap Gruffydd would strike back across the border.

The powers of the National Assembly for Wales were expanded by the Government of Wales Act 2006, and the Welsh Government can now propose and pass its own laws.

By 1969, the role of the Welsh Office had expanded to also cover responsibilities for highway construction and maintenance, tourism, water, forestry, common land, the Historic Buildings Council for Wales, and the Countryside Commission in Wales.

By this time, the institution had expanded to offer a range of full-time, sandwich and part-time courses in science, technology and commerce, to which it added the first ever " Welsh for Adults " course in 1967.

The infantry component of Dobell's Eastern Force had expanded since the first battle to four infantry divisions ; the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division, 53rd ( Welsh ) Division, the 54th ( East Anglian ) Division and the recently formed 74th ( Yeomanry ) Division which was made up of brigades of dismounted yeomanry serving as infantry.

From the 2004 – 05 season, the competition was expanded to 16 clubs – the top 10 placed clubs from the Welsh Premier League, joined by the two best-placed of the three teams: Newport County, Merthyr Tydfil and Colwyn Bay, the Welsh Cup winners plus the three Football League clubs – Cardiff City, Swansea City and Wrexham.

A later collection of triads compiled by the 18th-century Welsh antiquarian Iolo Morganwg gives an expanded version of this tradition, including the details that Caswallawn had abducted Fflur from Caesar in Gaul, killing 6, 000 Romans, and that Caesar invaded Britain in response.

Much of the work appears to be derived from Gildas's 6th century polemic The Ruin of Britain, Bede's 8th century Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the 9th century History of the Britons ascribed to Nennius, the 10th century Welsh Annals, medieval Welsh genealogies ( such as the Harleian Genealogies ) and king-lists, the poems of Taliesin, the Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen, and some of the medieval Welsh Saint's Lives, expanded and turned into a continuous narrative by Geoffrey's own imagination.

Rugby initially expanded in Wales through ex-pupils of the Welsh colleges settling, or students from English colleges and universities returning to the larger industrial hubs of South Wales.

With the growth of the Welsh Harp as a place of entertainment, Robb expanded the business by engaging engineers to build a new brewery in The Hyde by 1855.

After the success of clubs in the Welsh Premier division of the Rugby League Conference, a South Wales team was mooted to join a professional league in March 2005, as the National League Two division was due to be restructured and expanded for the 2006 season.