melyn
Sounds roughly like: mel-in?
IPA: /ˈmɛlɨn/ or /ˈmeːlɪn/ ?
CEFR band: A1
Welsh for Adults level: Mynediad/Entry
adjective
1. yellow in colour
Mae bananas melyn gyda ni.
We have yellow bananas.
2. blond(e)
Roedd gwallt melyn gyda fe.
He had blond hair.
Edrychais am ben melyn Meinir.
I looked for Meinir's blonde head.
noun masc. (pl.melynion)
1. the colour yellow
Melyn yw'r lliw mwyaf hapus yn y byd!
Yellow is the happiest colour in the world!
2. the yolk of an egg
Rwyt ti angen un ŵy (melyn yn unig).
You need one egg (yolk only).
More about melyn (click a category to expand...)
Roots?
derived from mêl(honey)
Connections?
Bretonmelen yellow
Cornishmelyn yellow
Topics and themes?
Colours
brown (brown)
coch (red)
du (black)
glas (blue)
gwyn (white)
gwyrdd (green)
llwyd (grey)
oren (orange)
pinc (pink)
piws (purple)
porffor (purple)
Compounds?
melyn ŵy
also:melynwy
egg-yolk
Idioms and phrases?
nid aur yw popeth melyn
literally "everything yellow is not gold"
not all that glitters is gold
y cyw melyn olaf
literally "the last yellow chick"
the youngest child of a family
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