"Glaswellt gwyrdd."
Translation:Green grass.
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It’s funny since glaswellt already consists of glas (blue/green) and gwellt (grass).
It's the same in Scots Gaelic - they have virtually no word for green (if i'm not mistaken), you infer green or blue depending on the context. Must be a Celtic thing...
Yes I thought it funny too.
Glas could be grue (or bleen perhaps?) as in this interesting article: http://www.economist.com/node/8548630
In Cornish grass is always described as being glas. I thought the same was true of Welsh, obviously not
Welsh does not make that distinction anymore, but since Cornish has been revived it’s possible that they revived the distinction I suppose.
Edit: According to French Wiktionary, Breton still makes the distinction as well. Did not know that.
It is another word for grass, but more often used for hay (which is dried grass, of course).
The word "gwellt" means grass, straw or hay. (It drops the "g" when forming the compound word with "glas". So "glaswellt" is "blue/green grass". "Glasswellt gwyrdd" is therefore overkill and I think you'd only use the phrase if the grass was particularly luscious and green.
I agree with mwsogl. Both my dictionaries, 1958 and 1960, list glaswellt as meaning green grass. I have never heard or seen the phrase glaswellt gwyrdd. It is nonsensical.
If this is south Wales welsh, then porfa should be used really shouldn't it? I always learned that glaswellt was a north Wales term.