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safn.

mouth, jaws

4 characters1 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. mouth, jaws

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

Inherited from Middle Welsh safn, from Proto-Brythonic *s(t)aβ̃n, from Proto-Celtic *stamnā. Compare Cornish sâwn, Cornish sawan (“chasm”), Breton staoñ (“palate”), and, outside of Brittonic, Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).

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