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  • both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (shoot, offspring). Doublet of plant. ...
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  • of the throne by his father, reconcile the Welsh who had suffered under his father's policies, heal the Papal Schism, and unite the country ...
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  • * Welsh acre * white acre ===Related terms=== * acorn * Greenacre * wiseacre acre|78193747 ...
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  • * Welsh * West Frisian * Yiddish * Zuni }} ...
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  • Vernon Watkins (June 27, 1906 — October 8, 1967), was a Welsh poet, commonly known for his friendship with his fellow Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas ...
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  • with the rightful sovereignty of Great Britain. In Welsh, the sword is called Caledfwlch. The best known version of the story of the sword depicts ...
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  • English Language guessed it was from (unattested) Welsh *bîr; he distinguished it in his time from ale — the ancient usual word — by beer being ...
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  • #: The Welsh government claims that Cardiff is Europe’s youngest capital. # Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially ...
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  • Compare also Old Irish mess (animal feed) and Welsh mes (acorns), English mast (fodder for swine and other animals), which are probably from the same root. ...
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  • Dylan Marlais Thomas, (October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953) was an Anglo-Welsh poet who is widely considered one of the most influential English ...
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  • Irish fiodh (a wood, tree), Irish fid (tree) and Welsh gwŷdd (trees); all from Proto-Celtic *widus (wood). Unrelated to Dutch woud (forest), German ...
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  • antiquary John Leland believed him to be Welsh, but most modern scholarship ... of the Arthur legend were preserved in Welsh folksongs and culture to ...
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  • Alfred Ernest Jones (January 1, 1879 – February 11, 1958) was a ... In 1917, Jones married the Welsh composer Morfydd Llwyn Owen. She ...
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  • Compare Welsh gwelw (pale), Latin helvus (dull yellow), Irish geal (white, bright), Italian giallo (yellow), Lithuanian žalias (green), Ancient ...
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  • history of Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Welsh collection of anonymous tales ... . Others propose a derivation from Welsh arth (earlier art), meaning ...
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  • Nynorsk and Icelandic sumar (summer), Welsh haf (summer), Armenian ամ or am (year), ամառ or amaṙ (summer), Sanskrit समा or sámā ...
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  • Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός ...
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  • The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor (Welsh: Tudur) was a series of five monarchs of Welsh origin who ruled England and Ireland from 1485 until ...
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  • Sir Henry Morgan (Hari Morgan in Welsh), (ca. 1635 – August 25, 1688) was a Welsh privateer, who made a name in the Caribbean as a leader of ...
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  • 28, 1841 – May 10, 1904), was a nineteenth-century Welsh-born journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David ...
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