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語源

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

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊθɪn/

名詞

bwthyn (複数形 bythynnod)

1. A small Welsh cottage.
   • 1943, Michael Gareth Llewelyn, Sand in the Glass:

     When I got home I called in the bwthyn where our welter-weight, Wil Shon Morgan, lived.

   • 1976, John B. Hilling, The historic architecture of Wales: an introduction:

     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.

   • 1998, Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England), The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian:

     We arrived at the bwthyn where a peat fire burnt at one end and a very black kettle hung over it and the smell of the peat acted as an excellent dissinfectant^[sic] ... But oh! the dirty muddle inside was awful.