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hufen.

cream

5 characters2 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈhɨ̞vɛn/North-Wales, colloquial, standard/ˈhɨ̞van/North-Wales, colloquial/ˈhiːvɛn/South-Wales/ˈhɪvɛn/South-Wales

  1. cream

    masculine · not-mutable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Probably from a Proto-Celtic *soimeno-, from Proto-Indo-European *soi(kʷ)-meno- (“sweet liquid”), from *seykʷ- (“to moisten; to filter”), and direct cognate with Proto-Germanic *saimaz (“raw honey”), whence Old Norse seimr (“honeycomb”) and German Seim (“syrup”).

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