llon

See also: -llon

Welsh

Alternative forms
  • llonn (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Welsh llonn, from Proto-Brythonic *llonn, from Proto-Celtic *londos (compare Old Irish lond (“fierce”)), of uncertain ultimate origin; Stokes suggests a comparison with Sanskrit रन्धयति (randhayati, “to torment, destroy”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“to cook”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɬɔn/
  • Rhymes: -ɔn

Adjective

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  1. cheerful, merry, joyful, glad
    Synonyms: llawen, hapus

Derived terms
  • llongyfarch (to congratulate)
  • llon lafur (“red poppy”)
  • llonder (cheerfulness, joy, gladness)
  • llonni (to cheer, to gladden)

Mutation

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References
  1. Stokes, Whitley (1890), “The Old-Irish Glosses in Regina nr. 215”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der indogermanischen Sprachen, volume 30, page 557: “„Cornuta facies,“ Exod. XXXIV. 29. lond immitis, amarus, commutis, whence londas „indignatio“, for-lond oppression, an-for-lond „violence“. Cf. perhaps skr. radh, randhaya.”
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