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gwig.

wood, forest, grove

4 characters1 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɡwiːɡ/
  1. wood, forest, grove

    feminine · plural · singular
  2. town, village, hamlet, street, alley

    feminine · plural · singular
Where this word comes from

Cognate with and possibly derived from Latin vicus (“town”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (“settlement”).

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