parddu

Welsh

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈparðɨ̞/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈparði/

Noun

parddu m (uncountable)

1. soot, smut

   Synonym: huddygl

2. (phytopathology) smut (fungi in the class Ustilaginomycetes and the diseases that they cause in plants)

Hyponyms

• parddu briallu (“bird's-eye-primrose smut”)
• parddu ceirchwellt (“false-oatgrass smut”)
• parddu celyn y môr (“sea-holly smut”)
• parddu clwbfrwyn (“wood-clubrush smut”)
• parddu corsfrwyn (“white-beak-sedge smut”)
• parddu corsfrwyn mân-sborog (“small spored white-beak-sedge smut”)
• parddu cynffonwellt (“foxtail smut”)
• parddu ffugalaw (“frogbit smut”)
• parddu gludlys (“campion-anther smut”)
• parddu gwerddig (“chickweed-wintergreen smut”)
• parddu gweunwellt (“annual-meadowgrass smut”)
• parddu gweunwellt (“meadowgrass smut”)
• parddu gwlydd y dom (“chickweed seedsmut”)
• parddu haidd (“barley covered-smut”)
• parddu hesg cynnar prin (“rare-spring-sedge smut”)
• parddu hesg llwydlas (“glaucous-sedge smut”)
• parddu hesg meidwf (“hair-sedge smut”)
• parddu indrawn (“sweetcorn smut”)
• parddu llafn y bladur (“bog-asphodel smut”)
• parddu llin llyffant melyn (“yellow-toadflax smut”)
• parddu mawnwellt (“purple small-reed-stripe smut”)
• parddu nionod, parddu winwns (“onion smut”)
• parddu pefrwellt (“reed canary-grass smut”)
• parddu pelydr gwyrdd (“green hellebore smut”)
• parddu perwellt (“sweet-vernal smut”)
• parddu rhydd ceirch (“oat semiloose-smut”)
• parddu rhydd gwenith (“wheat, barley & rye loose-smut”)
• parddu rhydd haidd (“barley loose-smut”)
• parddu saffrwm (“colchicum smut”)
• parddu seren Fethlehen (“yellow star-of-bethlehem smut”)
• parddu tormaen (“saxifrage smut”)
• parddu ysbigfrwyn (“spike-rush smut”)
• parddu'r briwydd (“bedstraw smut”)
• parddu'r claerlys (“rookweed smut”)
• parddu'r lleidlys (“mudwort smut”)
• parddu'r whisgi (“angel's share”)

Derived terms

• cap llaeth parddu (“sooty milkcap mushroom”)
• cwpan parddu (“sooty cup mushroom”)
• (Anglesey) gŵydd barddu (“brent goose”)
• morwennol barddu (“sooty tern”)
• parddu lamp (“lamp soot”)
• pardduo (“to blacken”)
• pardduog (“sooty”)
• tegyll brau parddu (“winecork brittlegill mushroom”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of parddu

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
parddu	barddu	mharddu	pharddu

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Cymdeithas Edward Llwyd (2015), Ffyngau a Heintiau Planhigion [Fungi and Plant Infections] (Cyfres Enwau Creaduriaid a Planhigion; 4)‎ (in Welsh), Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, →ISBN
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “parddu”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies