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Cwtch, hiraeth or Cymru? What’s your favourite Welsh word?
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01/07/2025
With an aim to get a million speaking Welsh in Wales by 2050, we’re asking people across Cardiff if they’ve got a favourite Welsh word, and if they want to see the language grow in the future.
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Welsh is of this soil, this island, the senior language of the men of Britain, and Welsh is beautiful.
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Those are the immortal words of the legendary Lords of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien,
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and it's a sentiment that still holds strong today.
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Welsh genuinely is a beautiful language.
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It's centuries old, and given Wales' musical and poetic history,
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it's a language that captures people's feelings and imaginations like no other.
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So I'm here today in Cardiff, asking people what their favourite Welsh words are.
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I don't know what my favourite Welsh word is, actually, that's a big question.
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I'd like to say mine is hiraith.
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Yeah, hiraith's a nice one, or like catcher or putsch, something like that.
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Yeah.
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Do you mind explaining what hiraith means?
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It's a feeling of home, wanting to...
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It's like warmth inside when you think about, like, when you're going home at Christmas,
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the house of Christmas, or whenever you go back to the family,
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your hiraith is what you're longing for.
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Wedi blino.
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Wedi blino.
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Toll, yeah.
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Plug an owl.
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All I know is...
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Brida.
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Brida.
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Good morning.
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Not star.
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Pronounsar.
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I'm Cymru.
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I don't even know her.
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I used to know a bit when I was in school, but I don't know her.
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Erm, cuch.
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That's my favourite.
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No one else says cuch in the world except for us Welsh.
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But I don't speak Welsh.
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I only know a few words from what my children have learned over the years.
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Do you mind explaining what cuch means?
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Er, it's the Welsh word for cuddle, hug.
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So I just prefer cuch.
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We don't ask for hugs or cuddles in my house, only a cuch.
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The Welsh Government have been making efforts to have a million Welsh speakers in Wales by the year 2050.
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And despite recent plateaus and the number of those speaking the language, it's an achievable goal if people across Wales get on board.
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More and more kids are learning Welsh and education in both English and Welsh language schools.
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And it's those future generations that will need to carry the Welsh baton on into the future.
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I 100% support it and I suppose for a few reasons.
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I think really acknowledging, like, the, being, like, I was born in Wales, raised in England, my grandfather was Welsh,
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so I had it hammered into me, the importance of Welsh cultural heritage my entire life.
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But also, erm, I teach English overseas and the earlier children become bilingual the better it is for them.
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So it's not just a gift of cultural heritage, it's a cult, it's an investment in their future linguistically.
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So, I think on, I just don't see a single drawback to it. I don't understand why people fight it.
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Yeah, yeah, I went to Welsh school, so I did all my exams and stuff in Welsh, erm, even though we don't really not Welsh at home.
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No, we don't, though.
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I think it's a really good way of learning Welsh and, like, teaching a lot of, like,
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so, starting a lot of, like, first-generation Welsh speakers. I think it's a good way of, like, spreading the language.
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And I wish I had learned it, but I was taken away to England when I was a kid and they don't teach it there.
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So, yeah, I wish I could speak Welsh. Maybe one day I will follow up and learn the language fully.
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But for now, I need to know a few basics.
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