I love these new welsh words. Before we left Cardiff in The 1970s I remember reading in the Echo that a JCB was Jac-codi-bawr in welsh (Apologies for the phonetic spelling) We, even my English husband, always call them by that name, which can cause a slightly puzzled response in rural Hampshire!! We will definitely add poptyping to our list!! Best wishes Angela ----- Original Message ----- From: <mona_sydd_yma@yahoo.com> To: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com>; <glamorgan@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 12:44 AM Subject: Re: [GLA] Welsh word twmpath meaning tump (was Phil the CardiffMongrel and Mutton Tump, Senghenydd) > 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 > -- > > 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

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:44:26 +0100, <mona_sydd_yma@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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! On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:14:29 +0100, Angela <angelafamhist@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > I love these new welsh words. > We will definitely add poptyping to our list!! Hi Mona, Angela and Listers, My husband uses the Welsh for microwave a lot because he's the one who knows how it works:-) Having a look for it on Google, I think it's actually two words popty ping. I asked Ian how he came to know the modern Welsh for microwave and he said that he must have heard it on the television. I'm not surprised because when I turn on the television in the morning a Welsh language television programme comes up on the screen. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah The Glamorganshire Canal www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com

I think my favourite among new Welsh words is the transitive verb wfro meaning to clean with a vacuum cleaner. ( from the word Hoover) It is not in my Welsh dictionary, but I heard it on Pobl y Cwm so it must be real. Jeff