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angen.

need, necessity, requirement

5 characters2 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈaŋɛn/North-Wales, colloquial, standard/ˈaŋan/North-Wales, colloquial/ˈaŋɛn/South-Wales
  1. need, necessity, requirement

    masculine · uncountable · usually
  2. (a person etc.) in need of; as a predicate of bod, can be translated with the verb “to need”

    masculine · uncountable · usually
    Bydd Gareth angen calon newydd.
Where this word comes from

From Middle Welsh aghen, from Proto-Brythonic *anken (compare Cornish and Breton anken, from Proto-Celtic *ankenā (cognate with Old Irish éicen (“force; necessity”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach, attain”) cognate with Ancient Greek ἀνάγκη (anánkē, “force; necessity”). An alternative theory derives the Celtic from Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- (“to perish, disappear”); this derivation is semantically bold.

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