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sebon.

soap (substance used for cleaning)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈsɛbɔn/North-Wales/ˈseːbɔn/South-Wales/ˈsɛbɔn/South-Wales
  1. soap (substance used for cleaning)

    masculine · not-mutable
  2. semen (male reproductory fluid)

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

Uncertain. The sense “semen” is older than the sense “soap” (the former attested in Middle Welsh, the latter not until Early Modern Welsh), so it may be a conflation of Latin sēmen with Latin sāpō, although the vowels do not match either word. (If the Latin words had been borrowed into Proto-Brythonic, sēmen, sēminis would be expected to give Welsh *swyf(yn), while sāpō(nis) would give *sawb or *sobun.) Hypothesizing a borrowing from Old English sāpe (accusative sāpan) also leaves the vowels (and the early semantics) unaccounted for.

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