( bring - (v.) dod a+ ) bring - (v.) dwyn "Dwyn" has a second meaning of "steal", but is nearest to the Hiberno-English use of "bring" which can also mean what to a British English speaker is always "take" -- perhaps it is closest to "convey". "Dod a+" or "dod gyda" is literally "to come with" so is necessarily to bring towards the speaker or the place referred to in the context. "Dod a+" approximates "dwyn tuag yma", "dwyn yma"; cf. "mynd a+" which would be "dwyn ymaith". ( difference - gwahaniaeth [-au, m.] ) difference - rhagor [-au, -ion, m.] A "gwahaniaeth" is that which differentiates and is neutral as to value, a "rhagoriaeth" is an excellence, an extent to which something is better, or in greater quantity ("rhagor o ", more of ; "yn rhagori ar ", better than ). "Faint rhagor?" is "how much more?", "how much longer?", "what greater extent?"; whereas "faint o wahaniaeth?" is "to what extent do they differ?". ( place - lle [-oedd, -fydd, m.], ) place - man [-nau, mf.] I suspect a regional variation with little semantic difference, except that "lle" seems to be natural in question like "pa le?" (= "ble", "'lle?"), and "man" has some temporal senses ("yn y fan", "man a man" and so on) not shared with "lle" which is essentially spacial. There are probably other idiomatic uses that differ too: "man geni" is ambiguously a birthmark (ac arno roedd man geni twll bach y clo), "lle geni" is undoubtedly the place of birth on a registration document. ( try - (v.) ceisio ) try - (v.) trio "Trio" -- I think it ought to be either "tri%o" or "treio" although the latter is perhaps an archaic pronunciation -- is just the English borrowing and possibly gets used for most of the uses of the English word. "Ceisio" (and the noun "cais") has much the same meaning and is perhaps restricted to what you might vaguely call north-Walian. It means most of the "attempt" meanings of "try", including the ones to do with rugby football, and applying for things and so on. Also in my north-eastern dialect at least it is the verb for "to (go and) buy" (standard "prynu"). It is decidedly not the sense of "try" in "to try a case" (profi), "to try one's patience" (trethu). _oOo_ ))) song - ca+n [canau, caniadau, caneuon, f.] (( song - cerdd [-i, f.] Let me add that since "cerdd" is really an "art", a folk song -- in the Cecil Sharp sense -- is very definitely a "ca+n" and nothing to do with "cerdd", although this is not the sense of "folk" that is common in modern American English. In particular although "cerdd dant" is "canu" it is most definitely not just "canu". No we+ cho+se+. ((( sign - munud [-iau, m.] )) ( Pass. ... Ahem. I have been told that y Geiriadur Mawr gives "munud" as "gesture" (ystum) with "munudedd" (arfer cyson) and "munudio" (ystumio), but nobody that I asked this evening knows this use. I am mystified since yGM does not mark it as archaic, but I have never to my knowledge met it. Maybe just a hole in my vocabulary. (Oes yna rhywun sy'n fodlon hawlio "munud" fel gair byw ar lafar? Ydy o'n rhywbeth rhanbarthol? O'r anwybodaeth. O alaeth.) g