Word.ws English Dictionary

bwthyn

/ˈbʊθɪn/

bwthyn noun: a small Welsh cottage.

bwthyn: a small Welsh cottage
Image: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

bwthyn (plural bythynnod)

  1. A small Welsh cottage.
    • When I got home I called in the bwthyn where our welter-weight, Wil Shon Morgan, lived.1943, Michael Gareth Llewelyn, Sand in the Glass
    • In its simplest form, the bwthyn is a one-roomed or two-roomed cottage and was the most widespread house type of the Welsh countryside up to the present century.1976, John B. Hilling, The historic architecture of Wales: an introduction

Forms of bwthyn

pluralbythynnod

Origin of bwthyn

Unadapted borrowing from Welsh bwthyn. Possibly cognate with Scottish Gaelic bothag, Scots and Scottish English bothy.

Questions about bwthyn

What does bwthyn mean?
Bwthyn means a small Welsh cottage.
What part of speech is bwthyn?
Bwthyn is a noun.
How do you pronounce bwthyn?
Bwthyn is pronounced /ˈbʊθɪn/.
What is the plural of bwthyn?
The plural of bwthyn is bythynnod.

Words near bwthyn in the dictionary

  1. BWRA
  2. BWRs
  3. BWS
  4. BWSR
  5. BWT
  6. bwthyn
  7. BWTs
  8. bwuh
  9. BWV
  10. BWVs
  11. BWWM

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bwthyn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bwthyn.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bwthyn. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.