Meaning of bachgennyn | Babel Free

Definitions

boykin; little boy (diminutive of bachgen)

masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“Unig hawl Thomas Williams i anfarwoldeb oedd iddo dalu am yr unig dipyn ysgol a gafodd bachgennyn a elai dan yr enw Twm Sali […]”

Thomas Williams’ only claim to immortality was that he paid for the only bit of schooling ever to have been given a little boy who went by the name of Twm Sali […]

“1925: Ifano Jones, A history of printing and printers in Wales to 1810, and of successive and related printers to 1923: Also, A history of printing and printers in Monmouthshire to 1923, page 64 (W. Lewis (printers), limited)”

[…] as in the heading, he is named Ishmael, and in the first of which he is referred to as a little boy (=‘Bachgennyn Bach dwys, sef ismael’). (=‘a serious Tiny Little Boy, named ismael’)

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