dryw

Welsh

Despite being written with a "y", the vowel here is generally pronounced /ɪ/ in the north as tends to be the case when "y" precedes "w".

Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring forth”); see Scottish Gaelic dàir. For similar sense development, compare Ancient Greek τροχίλος (trokhílos, “Egyptian plover”) from τρέχω (trékhō, “to run”).[1][2]

Cognate with Old Irish dreän (“wren”) and possibly Proto-Germanic *wrandijô (modern English wren).

dryw m or f by sense (plural drywod)

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
dryw	ddryw	nryw	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

From Middle Welsh dryw, from Proto-Brythonic *drüw, from Proto-Celtic *druwits, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”) + *weyd- (“to see, to know”), hence meaning "tree-knower".

dryw m (plural drywon)

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
dryw	ddryw	nryw	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

dryw m

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tryw	dryw	nhryw	thryw
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dryw”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dryw”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “dryw”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page dàir.

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