gweyth

Cornish

Etymology

From Middle Cornish gweth, from Old Cornish gueid, Proto-Brythonic *gweiθ, from Proto-Celtic *wextom. Cognate with Breton gwezh, Irish feacht, and Welsh gwaith.

Noun

gweyth f (plural gweythyow)

1. instance
2. occasion
3. time (forming adverbial numbers, i.e. “how many times”)

Derived terms

• androweyth (“afternoon time”)
• boragweyth (“morning twilight”)
• diwweyth (“twice”)
• dydhweyth (“daytime”)
• gorthugherweyth (“evening time”)
• kanskweyth (“a hundred times”)
• lies gweyth, lieskweyth (“often”)
• lower gweyth (“often”)
• milvilweyth (“a million times”)
• milweyth (“a thousand times”)
• myttinweyth (“morning time”)
• nosweyth (“night time”)
• osweyth (“era”)
• peskweyth (“how many times”)
• prysweyth (“instance, occasion”)
• Sulgweyth (“on Sunday”)
• teyrgweyth (“thrice, three times”)
• treweythus (“occasional, rare”)
• treweythyow (“occasionally”)
• treweythyow (“sometimes”)
• unweyth (“once”)

Noun

gweyth m (plural gweythyow)

1. work

   Synonyms: gonis, hwel, lavur, ober

Derived terms

• artweyth (“artwork”)
• bern gweyth (“workload”)
• brithweyth (“mosaic”)
• brosweyth (“embroidery”)
• bryckweyth (“brickworks”)
• diweyth (“unemployed”)
• dornweyth (“handicraft”)
• dy'gweyth (“week day”)
• galgweyth (“crime”)
• galweyth (“crime”)
• gemgweyth (“jewellery”)
• gover gweyth (“workstream”)
• gweytha (“to apply”)
• gweythor m (“worker”)
• gweythores f (“worker”)
• gweythres (“application”)
• gweythresans (“activation”)
• gweythresek (“active, functional”)
• gweythva (“factory”)
• iselweyth (“depression”)
• jynnweyth (“machinery”)
• kalesweyth (“hardware”)
• kammweyth (“misdeed, trespass”)
• kesweyth (“structure”)
• medhelweyth (“software”)
• menweyth (“masonry”)
• pannweyth (“textiles”)
• prennweyth (“woodwork”)
• priweyth (“pottery”)
• priweythva (“clay works”)
• rosweyth (“network”)
• skeusenweyth (“photography”)
• tanweyth (“fireworks”)
• -weyth (“-craft”)

Mutation

Mutation of gweyth

radical	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
gweyth	weyth	unchanged	kweyth	hweyth, weyth*

* after 'th
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.