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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.
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The name of Germany and the German language, in French, Allemagne, allemand, in Portuguese Alemanha, alemão, in Spanish Alemania, alemán, and in Welsh ( Yr ) Almaen, almaeneg are derived from the name of this early Germanic tribal alliance.
* 1925 – Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.
Siloa has been're-established ' as a Welsh language chapel.
* Mihangel Morgan-leading Welsh language writer, born in Trecynon, some of his literary works feature Aberdare
* British language ( Celtic ), also known as Brythonic, the ancient Celtic language once spoken in Britain, ancestral to Welsh, Cornish and Breton
Irish bua ( Classical Irish buadh ), Buaidheach, Welsh buddugoliaeth ), and that the correct spelling of the name in the British language is Boudica, pronounced ( the closest English equivalent to the vowel in the first syllable is the ow in " bow-and-arrow ").
Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish, it is classified as an Insular Celtic language.
Several contemporary bands have Welsh language songs, such as Ceredwen, which fuses traditional instruments with trip-hop beats, the Super Furry Animals, Fernhill, and so on ( see the Music of Wales article for more Welsh and Welsh-language bands ).
Islanders ' accents retain elements passed down from English, Scottish, and Welsh settlers ( among others ) in a language variety known as Cayman Creole.
These are the Goidelic Irish ( Gaeilge ) and Scottish Gaelic ( Gàidhlig ) descended from Old Irish, and the Brythonic Welsh and Breton descended from the British language.
Latin, the common language of the church, Old English, the language of the Angles and Saxons, Irish, spoken on the western coasts of Britain and in Ireland, Brythonic, ancestor of the Welsh language, spoken in large parts of western Britain, and Pictish, spoken in northern Britain.
Although writing exclusively in the English language, Thomas has been acknowledged as one of the most important Welsh poets of the 20th century.
Though FitzGibbon asserts that Thomas ' negativity towards Welsh nationalism was fostered by his father's hostility towards the Welsh language.
* A language descended from the pre-Roman inhabitants, though Welsh exists as a living minority language, with many borrowings from Latin, such as llaeth (" milk "), ffenestr (" window ").
Hen wlad fy nhadau was also one of the first Welsh-language songs recorded when Madge Breese sang it on 11 March 1899, for the Gramophone Company, as part of the first recording in the Welsh language.
The old language of the Welsh is as alive as ever.
They spoke the now extinct British language, which evolved into the Breton, Cornish, and Welsh languages.
Welsh and origins
Still working for MI6, he goes on to collaborate with Pete Wisdom of MI-13 in facing the Welsh dragon, which had turned amnesiac and become a human crime lord ; Shang Chi had been told by Wisdom that the dragon ( being inherently noble ) would go free once it remembered its true origins, and was embittered to find this had been a lie.
Always proud of his Welsh origins, Jones became a member of the Welsh Nationalist Party, Plaid Cymru.
At the time of their suppression, a small number of English and Welsh religious houses could trace their origins back to Pre-Conquest Anglo-Saxon or Celtic foundations ; but the overwhelming majority of the 825 religious communities dissolved by Henry VIII owed their existence to the wave of monastic enthusiasm that had swept western Christendom in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Until then The Prince Edward will be Earl of Wessex and Viscount Severn, the latter title reflecting his bride's Welsh origins.
This adaptation was narrated by Dame Judi Dench, with Michael Maloney as Ged, and used a wide range of actors with different regional and social accents to emphasize the origins of the Earthsea characters ( for instance, Estarriol and others from the East Reach were played by actors with Southern Welsh accents ).
The origins of the International Eisteddfod go back to 1943 when Harold Tudor, an officer of the British Council, arranged a visit for members of governments-in-exile to the Welsh National Eisteddfod in Bangor.
They were of mixed origins, variously Norman, Hiberno-Norman, Gaelic-Irish, French, Welsh and English, or some combination of the above.
Henry was the first monarch of the House of Tudor: during this dynasty the royal coat of arms included a Welsh dragon, a reference to the monarch's origins.
They had diverse ethnic origins ; Eliza Stewart was mulatto, of African, Cherokee, Welsh and German ancestry ; and William Pinchback was of Scots-Irish, Welsh and German descent.
( It was no doubt significant that the present royal family, the Tudors, had Welsh origins.
The Welsh Socialist Alliance was closely allied to the SA but had separate origins.
William Floyd was born in Brookhaven, New York Long Island, into a family of English and Welsh origins and took over the family farm when his father died.
* 727, 800 people had Welsh origins.
However, some of the more experimental poets in Wales were not of Welsh origins.
During the early days of the Rhymney Valley and Glamorgan League's there was also the South Wales League ( 1890-1911 ) but this competition had no connection with the origins of the Welsh Football League.
" Austerlitz ", by the Anglo-German novelist W G Sebald, is an odyssey of a kindertransport boy brought up in a Welsh manse who later traces his origins to Prague and then goes back there.
Some of the magical objects listed can be shown to have earlier origins in Welsh narrative tradition.
The term itself may refer to a crumpled or curled-up cake, or have Celtic origins relating to the Breton krampoez meaning a " thin, flat cake " and the Welsh crempog or crempot, a type of pancake.
The Chester Road which runs through the village follows the line of a drovers ' road called the Welsh Road, whose origins probably lie as an ancient trackway from the pre-Roman era.
Those with articles listed on this page either do not have clear English, Scottish, Welsh, or Northern Irish origins yet are British citizens ( or have competed for Great Britain internationally ) or do but the information presented in their articles does not indicate of which British origins they are.
As such they were key works in shaping how the Welsh thought of themselves and others, tracing their origins back to Brutus, the mythical founder of the Britain.
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In Chubut, the Welsh community is known for its teahouses, offering scones and torta galesa, which is rather like torta negra.
The 21 consonant letters in the English alphabet are B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Z, and usually W and Y: The letter Y stands for the consonant in " yoke ", the vowel in " myth " and the vowel in " funny ", and " yummy " for both consonant and vowel, for examples ; W almost always represents a consonant except in rare words ( mostly loanwords from Welsh ) like " crwth " " cwm ".
There is no standard mode of celebration for Canada Day ; professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford Jennifer Welsh said of this: " Canada Day, like the country, is endlessly decentralized.
Sometimes " folklore " is religious in nature, like the tales of the Welsh Mabinogion or those found in Icelandic skaldic poetry.
In the year 473, the final entry in the Chronicle mentioning Hengist or Horsa, Hengist and Esc are recorded as having fought " the Welsh ", having taken " immense booty " and the Welsh having " fled from the English like fire ".
Perhaps the greatest diversity lies in hunting arrows, with varieties like broad-arrow, wolf-arrow, dog-arrow, Welsh arrow and Scottish arrow being recorded.
Welsh legend states that when Wales is threatened again he will rise from his unknown resting place in order to lead the defence of Wales, quite like the legend of King Arthur.
" Britain " is most like Welsh Ynys Prydein, " the island of Britain ", in which is a P-Celtic allophone of Q-Celtic Cruithne in Irish Cruithen-tuath, " land of the Picts.
While the storylines and production were remembered by children, the adult jokes like those about the Welsh in " Ivor the Engine ," or the fact that the Clangers swore occasionally ; gave them both an instant parent engagement as well as a later revival with children who had grown up and were re-watching their favourite programmes.
Of Welsh ancestry, he was reared and cared for by his mother, Eliza Ballou, who said, " He was the largest babe I had and looked like a red Irishman.
Following Cadwallon's death in battle the following year, his successor Cadafael ap Cynfeddw also allied himself with Penda against Northumbria but thereafter Gwynedd, like the other Welsh kingdoms, was mainly engaged in defensive warfare against the growing power of Mercia.
There was a similar decline in the steel industry, and the Welsh economy, like that of other developed societies, became increasingly based on the expanding service sector.
Henry II of England, fresh from his struggle with Thomas Becket, promptly rejected Gerald, possibly because his Welsh blood and ties to the ruling family of Deheubarth made him seem like a troublesome prospect, in favour of one of his Norman retainers Peter de Leia.
Most books explain this name as a British root ceto ( like Welsh coed ) plus Old English ham, thus meaning a forest settlement.
Other terms are taken not from Norse mythology, but from the Welsh mythology encapsulated in Mediaeval texts like the Mabinogion.
The hunter may be an unidentified lost soul, a deity or spirit of either gender, or may be a historical or legendary figure like Theodoric the Great, the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag, the Welsh psychopomp Gwyn ap Nudd or the Germanic Woden ( or other reflections of the same god, such as Alemannic Wuodan in Wuotis Heer (" Wuodan's Army ") of Central Switzerland, Swabia etc.
Later recalling the event Cadfael says: " It was I who took her from the soil and I who restored her-and still that makes me glad-from the moment I uncovered those slender bones, I felt in mine that they only wished to be left in peace [...] the girl was Welsh, like me ".
Ler, like his Welsh counterpart, is a god of the sea, though in the case of the Gaelic myths his son Manannán mac Lir seems to take over his position and so features more prominently.
The Irish lords do not like the idea, and many hide themselves in flour bags tied to the pillars of the huge newly built house to attack the Welsh.
The Irish lords didn't like the idea, so they hid themselves in flour bags to attack the Welsh.
However, there is no evidence that the Hu Gadarn of medieval Welsh tradition was anything like the culture hero of that name depicted by Iolo Morganwg.
But it also includes those born outside Wales with Welsh parentage, who were influenced by their Welsh roots, like London-born poet David Jones ( 1895 – 1974 ).
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