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purlan.

pure, holy

6 characters2 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈˈpɨ̞rlan/North-Wales/ˈpirlan/South-Wales
  1. pure, holy

  2. undefiled, uncorrupted, faultless

  3. sincere

Where this word comes from

From pur (“pure”) + glân (“clean”). Long vowels do not ordinarily occur in unstressed syllables in Welsh, so the long vowel in glân (marked by a circumflex) is shortened.

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