gêm

See also: gem, gém, Gem, and GEM

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English game.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡeːm/

Noun

gêm f (plural gêmau)

  1. game, contest
    Gêm ddwl yw criced. ― Cricket is a silly game.
    [1]
  2. (sports) fixture
  3. game (hunted animals and birds)

Usage notes
  • Like many other unnaturalised, g-initial, feminine singular nouns derived from English, gêm does not undergo soft mutation following the article (y); however, any adjective that modifies gêm mutates as it normally would. Conversely, gêm always undergoes nasal mutation to ngêm.

Derived terms

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
gêm - ngêm -
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. They Thought You'd Say This
  • Angharad Fychan and Ann Parry Owen, editors (2014), “gêm, gâm, giâm”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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