I don’t have a favourite though it’s fun to say “hoffi coffi” and “gwych” brings back memories of writing lots of sgwrs in Welsh lessons at school at at one time my friend/cousin and I just kept writing “gwych” and it made us laugh. Kids right! I don’t like the word “archfarchnad” It doesn’t sound right to say. Sorry to be negative. I also like saying “Dw I wedi anghofio”
I don’t have a favourite English word and I’m still learning cymraeg so that’s my excuse
One I just discovered: Clats, for claggy mud stuck to your boots. I cant believe you’ve borrowed that from Geordieland, reit?
“hyfryd”
“cariad”
As always, I don’t really have favourites, but these are some words I like.
Pardon the vanity, but I quite like my own formal name in Welsh: Mihangel
And thanks to a kind Welsh friend, I recently learned:
haf bach (gŵyl) Mihangel : a period of summery weather usually occurring around Michaelmas, 29th September (lit. little summer of Michaelmas) .
(What we normally call in English an Indian Summer, which expression I gather comes from North America).
Just learned ych-a-fi from the show “Keeping Faith”. It’s my favorite today
I’d subscribe to Say Something in Geordie lol.
I use ”ynys” for myself because of the movie “the secret of roan inish” Not a clue that will work for everyone I’m sure.
That’s something all Welsh people say even those who don’t speak Welsh.
I just learnt llond llaw go iawn and that’s my favourite phrase so far.
Without any fear of contradiction “sboncen” is the best word. It sounds very saucy for something so uncontroversial
I don’t want to use it. Was asking people on a Facebook group for an alternative
How about “anllythyrol”?
I listened to a podcast and that was the only word that was unsure of. I checked it out later and found that it meant uneducated or illiterate. I wish I hadn’t checked now
Oh, as it’s Halloween, I’ll go for “Ysbryd Glan”
Flipping through grammar for something else & found a section that said “chdi” was a common form of ti in the North. It’s fun to say.
From early on in SSIW I started developing favourite Welsh words. Diddorol was probably the first one. Now I’ve added neithiwr, cyfarfod, edrych. My overall favourite is probably rhywbeth.
Conversely there are some I don’t like, just because my English ears think they sound jarring or off-kilter in some way. Cyfle, cyflawni, fodlon. Bleh!
Sylweddoli, this is the word I like.
Now I fancy an ice cream
Has to be the onomatopoeic popty ping (microwave). So much nicer than the more staid meicrodon
annibyniaeth is mine.
Yr Draig Goch - The Red Dragon (the most powerful expression in Welsh!)
Or Baner Cymru - the Flag of Wales.
These are the two most important (my favourite sentences) in Welsh.
I think “Hiraeth” would meet either of those in the semi final. Didn’t translate easily into Saesneg but it’s a lovely word