By Joshua Morgan, Sketchy Welsh
Diffyg Ar Yr Haul: Solar Eclipse
(absence of the sun)
Also Eclips or Arguddiad (from cuddio, to hide)
Diffyg llwyr: total eclipse
Cymerwch ofal: take care
Hidlwr: colander
Spectol: glasses
Ble fyddwch chi'n gwylio?
Where will you be watching?
Solar Eclipse 2026
By Joshua Morgan, Sketchy Welsh
Diffyg Ar Yr Haul: Solar Eclipse
(absence of the sun)
Also Eclips or Arguddiad (from cuddio, to hide)
Diffyg llwyr: total eclipse
Cymerwch ofal: take care
Hidlwr: colander
Spectol: glasses
Ble fyddwch chi'n gwylio?
Where will you be watching?
Solar Eclipse 2026
With the forethcoming release of Star Wars in the Welsh language this year I’ve been thinking of some Welsh language Star Wars and cross overs.
Lleia means smallest in Welsh, (occasionally appearing as just Leia).
This makes Princess Lleia ‘the smallest princess’
(Tywysoges is the actual Welsh word for princess)
Tywysoges fwy means ‘a bigger princess’.
Arth is the Welsh word for a bear (also is where the name Arthur comes from meaning bear-man).
Hence, Arth Vader…
Illustrations by Joshua Morgan, Sketchy Welsh
By Joshua Morgan, Sketchy Welsh
Lleia, Lleiaf: least, smallest
Tywysoges: princess
Llai: less, smaller
Mwy: more, bigger
Diolch am eich cefnogaeth!
Thanks for your support!
Boed y Grym gyda chi: may the force be with you
Arth Vader!
By Joshua Morgan, Sketchy Welsh
Awgrymiadau ar gyfer enwau Star Wars yn y Gymraeg os gwelwch yn dda!
Suggestions for Star Wars names in Cymraeg please!
Gobaith newydd: a new hope
By SKETCHY WELSH, Joshua Morgan
Hwyl: a sail, or a short form of ‘bye’
Hwylio: sailing
Hwyl fawr: goodbye, (some suggestion that it is linked to wishing a big sail-for those sailing away, or otherwise ‘big success’)
Hwylbren: a mast (sailing-wood)
Hwylus expedient, easy, convenient
Y noson hwylusa the most convenient night
Hwyl: fun
Gest ti hwyl? Did you have fun?
Lledu: broaden, spread, widen
Lledwch yr hwyliau!
Unfurl the sails!
Lledwch eich gorwelion broaden your horizons
Hwyl: mood
Dyw hi ddim mewn hwyliau da heddiw.
She's not in a good mood today
Hwyl ddrwg: a bad mood
Hwyliog: fun filled, in good humour
Sylwodd e'n hwyliog - ... he remarked humorously
Dydy e ddim mewn unrhyw hwyliau i chwarae: He is not in any mood to play
Da gwaith Duw, rhoi cyrn byrion i fuwch hwyliog
(It’s) good, the work of God, to give short horns to a well natured cow.
Hwyl: success / progress
Sut hwyl gest ti?
What kind of success did you have
By SKETCHY WELSH, Joshua Morgan
Hwyl: a sail, or a short form of ‘bye’
Hwylio: sailing
Hwyl fawr: goodbye, (some suggestion that it is linked to wishing a big sail-for those sailing away, or otherwise ‘big success’)
Hwylbren: a mast (sailing-wood)
Hwylus expedient, easy, convenient
Y noson hwylusa the most convenient night
Hwyl: fun
Gest ti hwyl? Did you have fun?
Lledu: broaden, spread, widen
Lledwch yr hwyliau!
Unfurl the sails!
Lledwch eich gorwelion broaden your horizons
Hwyl: mood
Dyw hi ddim mewn hwyliau da heddiw.
She's not in a good mood today
Hwyl ddrwg: a bad mood
Hwyliog: fun filled, in good humour
Sylwodd e'n hwyliog - ... he remarked humorously
Dydy e ddim mewn unrhyw hwyliau i chwarae: He is not in any mood to play
Da gwaith Duw, rhoi cyrn byrion i fuwch hwyliog
(It’s) good, the work of God, to give short horns to a well natured cow.
Hwyl: success / progress
Sut hwyl gest ti?
What kind of success did you have
By Sketchy Welsh, Joshua Morgan
Torheulo/ bolheulo: to sunbathe (belly sunning)
Bol: belly
Tor: less common word for belly usually jn the names of animals
Haul: sun
Heulo: to sun
By Sketchy Welsh, Joshua Morgan
Torheulo/ bolheulo: to sunbathe (belly sunning)
Bol: belly
Tor: less common word for belly usually jn the names of animals
Haul: sun
Heulo: to sun
By Sketchy Welsh, Joshua Morgan
Torheulo/ bolheulo: to sunbathe (belly sunning)
Bol: belly
Tor: less common word for belly usually jn the names of animals
Haul: sun
Heulo: to sun
By Joshua Morgan, Sketchy Welsh
Haf summer
Mehefin June , meaning middle of the summer
(made from proto-celtic ‘medyos’ for middle, combined with ‘hefin’ a masculine version of haf)
Gorffennaf July (gorffen: finish + haf)
Afon Hafren The River Severn
Hafren (previously Halbren) was the name of the drowned princess and subsequent river godess that the River Severn was named after.
The name Severn itself comes from Sabrina which was the Roman’s latinised version of Hafren/Halbren.
Haf/Hafren is a girls name and Hefin is used for boys.
Hafgan
Can in Middle Welsh meant luminous brightness
Cân means song
Hafgan’s name either meaning ‘bright summer’ or ‘summer song.’
Arawn the king of Annwn (the underworld), who hunts with the Cŵn Annwn (the hounds of Annwn) throughout the winter and up until Calen Mai, the first day of May. Arawn also became conflated with the person of Gwyn ap Nudd, who was kind of a personification of winter and e-scooter of souls to the afterlife.
Hafgan and Arawn have been depicted as having a yearly battle for kingship creating the turn of the seasons from summer and spring to autumn and winter. In the tales of the Mabinogi, Arawn tricks Hafgan and has him killed by the mortal Pwyll.
By Joshua Morgan, Sketchy Welsh
Haf summer
Mehefin June , meaning middle of the summer
(made from proto-celtic ‘medyos’ for middle, combined with ‘hefin’ a masculine version of haf)
Gorffennaf July (gorffen: finish + haf)
Afon Hafren The River Severn
Hafren (previously Halbren) was the name of the drowned princess and subsequent river godess that the River Severn was named after.
The name Severn itself comes from Sabrina which was the Roman’s latinised version of Hafren/Halbren.
Haf/Hafren is a girls name and Hefin is used for boys.
Hafgan
Can in Middle Welsh meant luminous brightness
Cân means song
Hafgan’s name either meaning ‘bright summer’ or ‘summer song.’
Arawn the king of Annwn (the underworld), who hunts with the Cŵn Annwn (the hounds of Annwn) throughout the winter and up until Calen Mai, the first day of May. Arawn also became conflated with the person of Gwyn ap Nudd, who was kind of a personification of winter and e-scooter of souls to the afterlife.
Hafgan and Arawn have been depicted as having a yearly battle for kingship creating the turn of the seasons from summer and spring to autumn and winter. In the tales of the Mabinogi, Arawn tricks Hafgan and has him killed by the mortal Pwyll.
By Joshua Morgan, Sketchy Welsh
BYWYD MÔR Sea life
Môr sea
Mor so
Mae bywyd mor braf Life is so fine
Cystal as good
Does dim byd cystal â nofio yn y môr
There is nothing as good as swimming in the sea
By Joshua Morgan, Sketchy Welsh
Poeth: hot
Chwil : staggering, dizzy, drunken, wild
Chwilboeth : dizzyingly, staggeringly, intoxicatingly hot
Diwrnod : chwilboeth a scorchingly hot day
Chwysu dan haul chwilboeth:
Sweating under a scorching sun
Gobeithio eich bod chi'n llwyddo i gadw'n iach ac yn ymdopi â'r tywydd chwilboeth rydyn ni'n ei gael:
I hope you are managing to stay healthy and cope with the scorching hot weather we are having
Anyone any decent suggestions of where 29 appears in any kind of Mythology. I’m trying to complete the numbers to 100 but have several gaps!
Thanks everyone.
By Joshua Morgan, Sketchy Welsh
Gwylan: seagull
Yr wylan: the seagull
Adlewyrchu: reflecting