Welsh Vocab
Nos da
Good night. 'Nos' is 'night', 'da' is good.
Nos da i chi
"Goodnight to you". A possible reply to good night. The more formal, polite form.
Nos da i ti
The personal form of "goodnight to you". Reserved for friends, family and lovers.
Other languages - such as French - has more personal forms of address, such as 'vous' and 'tu'. In English, thee, thy and thou were personal forms, before disappearing.
As a bit of background, I have three fathers. My biological father, my stepfather, and the one I adopted because I didn't think much of the first two. In English, I generally call them, respectively, father, stepfather and papa.
The welsh for 'my father' is fy nhad i, with 'nhad' meaning 'father', 'fy' being the possessive article, and 'i' being 'me' or 'mine'. In other words, 'fy' identifies that the object is owned, and 'i' is who by. It's pronounced, as far as I understand, like "fine-HAAD-ee".
'Stepfather' is approximately llystad. 'Llys' means 'court, so it's a little like "father in [the eyes of] the law". I'm told that your spouses father is also llystad, which makes sense. The only difference in the relationship is who, precisely, you're linked by. Pronunciation - the ll is the trickier 'l' sound. Place your tongue to sound 'l', and blow as you say it. It makes a noise which is a bit like "cl". 'y', in a multisyllabic word is 'ee', and the stress is, again, on the long 'a' sound. "Cl - eess - TAAD".
Finally, to address your father, dad, or tad, or da work.
Any welshies in the audience, feel free to comment.
Good night. 'Nos' is 'night', 'da' is good.
Nos da i chi
"Goodnight to you". A possible reply to good night. The more formal, polite form.
Nos da i ti
The personal form of "goodnight to you". Reserved for friends, family and lovers.
Other languages - such as French - has more personal forms of address, such as 'vous' and 'tu'. In English, thee, thy and thou were personal forms, before disappearing.
As a bit of background, I have three fathers. My biological father, my stepfather, and the one I adopted because I didn't think much of the first two. In English, I generally call them, respectively, father, stepfather and papa.
The welsh for 'my father' is fy nhad i, with 'nhad' meaning 'father', 'fy' being the possessive article, and 'i' being 'me' or 'mine'. In other words, 'fy' identifies that the object is owned, and 'i' is who by. It's pronounced, as far as I understand, like "fine-HAAD-ee".
'Stepfather' is approximately llystad. 'Llys' means 'court, so it's a little like "father in [the eyes of] the law". I'm told that your spouses father is also llystad, which makes sense. The only difference in the relationship is who, precisely, you're linked by. Pronunciation - the ll is the trickier 'l' sound. Place your tongue to sound 'l', and blow as you say it. It makes a noise which is a bit like "cl". 'y', in a multisyllabic word is 'ee', and the stress is, again, on the long 'a' sound. "Cl - eess - TAAD".
Finally, to address your father, dad, or tad, or da work.
Any welshies in the audience, feel free to comment.