dillyd2d ago
Planning to spend a day walking around like a weirdo trying to read Welsh signs out loud. My husband asked me how to say fuck off in Welsh (*). I don't know! (**) But I think I know how to spell it phonetically: Ffyc aff.
(*) he wasn't being rude to me, he was referring to a spider in the corner of the kitchen.
(**) any Welsh friends here who can enlighten us?
#cymraeg
Show threadPaul Martin
@[email protected] I'd have transliterated it as "Ffwc off".

Funnily enough one rarely gets taught curses and obscenities in a Welsh language class. There are I believe many colourful phrases involving the verb "cachu" (to shit).
Jun 15 at 9:09amWeb
Show threaddillyd2d ago
@nowster oh yes I just remembered the y doesn't work as I was thinking if it's monosyllable.
Show threadPaul Martin2d ago
@[email protected] It's one of the few ambiguous things in Welsh orthography. The "y" can be "clear" (with an ee sound) or "obscure" (with the schwa sound). Add a circumflex (to bach - little roof) and the sound is lengthened. But the vowel might also be lengthened by context, especially if the word has only one syllable, eg. to bach which has long vowels, with them sounding similar to "toe bark" (but with the CH).