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From Proto-Indo-European *meldʰ-. Related to Old Norse Mjǫllnir.
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /meːɬd/, [meːɬt]
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /mɛɬd/, [mɛɬt]
- Rhymes: -ɛɬd
mellt f (collective, singulative mellten)
- lightning
- Synonym: lluched
Maen nhw'n darogan mellt a tharanau.
- They're predicting thunder and lightning.
- (in the singulative) a flash or bolt of lightning
Fe gafodd ei daro gan fellten.
- He/It was struck by (a bolt of) lightning.
Welsh may employ the plural/collective mellt or singular/singulative mellten to correspond to English collective noun lightning depending on the context, e.g.
Welest ti’r mellt ’na?
- Did you see that lightning? (i.e. those (several) flashes of lightning)
Welest ti’r fellten ’na?
- Did you see that lightning? (i.e. that (single) flash of lightning)
- taran (“thunder”)
- fel mellten (“like lightning, like a flash”)
- mellt a tharanau (“thunder and lightning”)
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mellt”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies