Welsh

Alternative forms

• cwninger
• cwning-gaer

Noun

cwningar m (plural cwningaroedd)^[3]

1. (rabbit) warren^[3][4]
   • 2009: Gŵyl Gerdded Ynys Môn 2009 (Isle of Anglesey Walking Festival 2009), dydd Iau Mai 28 (Thursday May 28), Taith 20 (Walk 20): “Cwningar Niwbwrch a Gwarchodfa Natur Genedlaethol Ynys Llanddwyn” (“Newborough Warren and Ynys Llanddwyn NNR”)

     Cwningar Niwbwrch a Gwarchodfa Natur Genedlaethol Ynys Llanddwyn yw un o’n systemau twyni tywod mwyaf trawiadol a phwysicaf.

     Newborough Warren & Ynys Llanddwyn National Nature Reserve is one of our most spectacular and important sand dune systems.

Related terms

• cwningen, cwningod

Mutation

References

1. ↑ Cymmrodorion Record Series (№ 1, volume 2) by the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in London, England (1897; self-published), page 571 ^〃
     The word cuningeria has been naturalised in Wales, e.g., in Gwningar, near the Newborough rabbit-warren in Anglesey.
2. ↑ Hanes a chyfansoddiadau arobryn Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Môn, Eisteddfod Caergybi, 1907 by Cymdeithas Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Môn (1908; self-published), page 54
     […] a word which occurs so often in Welsh place-names, is derived from Low Latin Cuningeria “ a rabbit warren.”
3. 1 2 Hippocrene Standard Welsh–English, English–Welsh Dictionary by Davidovic Mladen and Harold Meurig Evans (1993; revised edition; Hippocrene Books; ISBN 0781801362, 9780781801362), page 85
4. ↑ Geiriadur Cymraeg–Saesneg a Saesneg–Cymraeg by Thomas Gwynn Jones and Arthur ap Gwynn (1950; Hughes a’i Fab and the Educational Pub. Co.), page 196

• “cwninger, cwningar, cwning-gaer” in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru.