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Ailgylchu -poem
AS level poem by Grahame Davies - vocabulary work
Question | Answer |
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yn ddefod | a ritual / habit |
teithio lan | to travel up |
papurach | bumph / useless bits of paper |
tywallt | to pour |
costrelau neilltuol | specific pitchers |
yn porthi | feeding |
rhyw beiriant | some machine |
gwastraff | waste |
gwledd | feast |
fy nghydwybod | my conscience |
mewn gwirionedd | in reality |
buddsoddi | invest |
fy nhawelwch meddwl | my peace of mind |
llwytho | to load |
gloddest | feast |
a gludwyd | which was transported |
Blaenau'r Cymoedd | Heads of the Valleys |
pedwar ban | four corners |
รข'r peiriant | with the machine |
yn blingo | skinning |
storfeydd | stores |
dw i'n amau wir | I doubt really |
dw i'n casglu | I collect |
degwm o'r teilchion | a tenth of the bits |
i'w hoffrymu | to be offered |
ai dim ond | it it just |
olwynion dur | steel wheels |
am ddegawd arall | for another decade |
ar y bryniau | on the hills |
uwchben y cwm | above the valley |
llafnau | blades |
melinau gwynt | windmills |
yn troelli / yn troi | turning |
pladuro | scything |
prydferthwch | beauty |
cyfalaf | capitalism |
cloddio | digging |
awyr | sky |
gwaedwyd | was bled |
am elw | for profit |
estron | strange / foreign |
yn lle | instead of |
cynilo | to save |
carthion | faeces / dregs |
rheitiach | it would be better |
afradu | to squander |
pob adnodd | every resource |
eu llosgi nhw | burn them |
eu claddu nhw | bury them |
yn llawen | merrily |
yn galonnog | heartily/cheerily |
nes | until |
newynu | to starve (famine) |
gwenwynwr | poisoner |
llwgu | to starve (hunger) |
cynnydd | progress |
rhygnu | to grate |
rhydu | to rust |
rhewi | to freeze |
ynghynt | before / sooner |
llonyddwch | stillness |
ail-ymledu | respread |
o'i amgylch | about it / him |
yr hyn a wnaf | what I do |
ba obaith ynfyd | which futile hope |
dwn i ddim | I dunno |
gweddillion | remains |
fy ngormodedd | my excess |
yn ufudd | obediently |
yn gybyddlyd | miserly / meanly |
cyhoeddus | public / publicly |
rhod y rheibiwr | the predator's wheel |