On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:16:13 +0100, Thomas Roderick <roderick@gwi.net> wrote: > But what does "tump" mean? Well, I looked it up, not thinking I'd find > it: a mound or clump of trees, nota term used in New England. On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:27:57 +0100, Jennifer Cairns <jenmathias@gmail.com> wrote: > Useful hint for all .... type the following into google > define: tump Hi Tom, Jen and Listers, Tump reminded me of the Welsh word twmpath so I typed that into Google and up came the following Wikipedia page on Twmpath meaning tump: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twmpath Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah The Glamorganshire Canal www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com

According to what I've heard, they used to hold dances on top of hills--thus, twmpath. Twmpath is also the Welsh word for speedbump (zebra hump), which I absolutely love! More than one speedbump is 'twmpathau'. My car does a little dance when I drive over a twmpath! :) My other favorite 'Welsh' word is 'poptyping' = microwave. You bake something and when it's done, it pings! Soo much more descriptive! It makes me smile! Mona ________________________________ From: Josephine Jeremiah <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> To: glamorgan@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, June 18, 2011 5:39:33 PM Subject: [GLA] Welsh word twmpath meaning tump (was Phil the Cardiff Mongrel and Mutton Tump, Senghenydd) On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:16:13 +0100, Thomas Roderick <roderick@gwi.net> wrote: > But what does "tump" mean? Well, I looked it up, not thinking I'd find > it: a mound or clump of trees, nota term used in New England. On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:27:57 +0100, Jennifer Cairns <jenmathias@gmail.com> wrote: > Useful hint for all .... type the following into google > define: tump Hi Tom, Jen and Listers, Tump reminded me of the Welsh word twmpath so I typed that into Google and up came the following Wikipedia page on Twmpath meaning tump: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twmpath Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah The Glamorganshire Canal www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com -- To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html - A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ - The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message