"da" meaning in Welsh

See da in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /daː/ Forms: da [feminine, singular], da [plural], cystal [equative], gwell [comparative], gorau [superlative], [alternative, obsolete]
Rhymes: -aː Etymology: From Middle Welsh da, from Proto-Brythonic *daɣ, from Proto-Celtic *dagos (“good”) (compare Irish dea-). Etymology templates: {{inh|cy|wlm|da}} Middle Welsh da, {{inh|cy|cel-bry-pro|*daɣ}} Proto-Brythonic *daɣ, {{inh|cy|cel-pro|*dagos||good}} Proto-Celtic *dagos (“good”), {{cog|ga|dea-}} Irish dea- Head templates: {{cy-adj|ach|comp=gwell|eq=cystal|sup=gorau}} da (feminine singular da, plural da, equative cystal, comparative gwell, superlative gorau)
  1. good, well Derived forms: da i ddim (english: good-for-nothing), da iawn (english: well done), da-da, pethau da (english: sweets), iechyd da (english: cheers), os gwelwch yn dda (english: please)
    Sense id: en-da-cy-adj-AZpyhbGd
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /daː/ Forms: daoedd [plural]
Rhymes: -aː Etymology: From Middle Welsh da, from Proto-Brythonic *daɣ, from Proto-Celtic *dagos (“good”) (compare Irish dea-). Etymology templates: {{inh|cy|wlm|da}} Middle Welsh da, {{inh|cy|cel-bry-pro|*daɣ}} Proto-Brythonic *daɣ, {{inh|cy|cel-pro|*dagos||good}} Proto-Celtic *dagos (“good”), {{cog|ga|dea-}} Irish dea- Head templates: {{cy-noun|m|daoedd}} da m (plural daoedd)
  1. goodness Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-da-cy-noun-cVNux7N1
  2. (collective, uncountable) goods, cattle Tags: collective, masculine, uncountable
    Sense id: en-da-cy-noun-tMDGN2cT
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /daː/ Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], da [error-unrecognized-form], dda [soft], na [error-unrecognized-form], deuaf [alternative, literary], dof [alternative, literary], do [alternative, colloquial]
Rhymes: -aː Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Etymology templates: {{nonlemma}} See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Head templates: {{cy-verb form}} da Inflection templates: {{cy-mut}}
  1. first-person singular future colloquial of dod Tags: colloquial, first-person, form-of, future, singular Form of: dod
    Sense id: en-da-cy-verb-s2OFjh2- Categories (other): Welsh entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Welsh entries with incorrect language header: 4 7 5 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Welsh dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.