If you could, please format it
WORD, DEFINITION
I want to add them to a flashcard deck for myself, I casually collect loanwords and have been getting turned on to trying out csv/flashcards lately haha
Feel free to do the same, if the format is followed you can just copy and paste it to a new line of the csv deck
Cwtch (pronounced like your are going to say cook, but replace the k with tch. It is a welsh word, essentially meaning “to make small”. Not as in shrinking, but in various instances like: A covering or shelter, the small space under the staircase, a hug or cuddle (because you are making the space between you small), and it also means when you like someone because you have a small space in your heart for them.
So the connotations are typically of being closed around and conforting.
So you’d use it in these ways:
I’ve found that this is a cousin of the word “couch” (as in the furniture) in English. Their ancestor referred to a bed or nest.
Yeah I can see how that evolved from the common influence of Latin, since romans invaded Wales. There are other Welsh words that are definitely from Latin (as was the French version.)
English - French - Welsh
Monday - Lundi - Dydd Llun
Window - fenêtre - Ffenestr