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eleni.

this year

5 characters3 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

adv/ɛˈlɛnɪ/North-Wales, standard/ˈlɛnɪ/North-Wales, colloquial/ɛˈleːni/South-Wales, standard/ɛˈlɛni/South-Wales, standard
  1. this year

Where this word comes from

Cognate with Cornish hevleni. From a compound of Proto-Celtic *so (“this”) and *bleidanī (“year”). (Compare heddiw, from *so and *dīyos (“day”).)

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