Welsh words — page 32

linchpin

misspelling of limpin

caterpillars

lithium

abbreviation of lluosog

flap

ligulate

slack

to loosen

lash

bright

to slacken

to kill

corpses

slaughterhouse

act of killing

deadly

killer

Latin

theft

stealthy

to steal

part of shore between high and low water marks which may be crossed at low tide

low

milk

to lactate

especially milk parsley

dairy

milkmaid

spurge

milky

loud

vowel

beam

toil

less

mud

blade

say

damp

leap

kangaroo

dancer

to leap

church

disorder

a youth

glade

tide

torn

larch trees

rosary

love messenger

rod

shiny

shiny

burnished

shiny

to shine

lice

hand

caress

dexterous

handgun

surgery

jolly

to be glad

enjoyment

a lot

sleeve

surgeon

surgery

miserly

to masturbate

handbook

full

floor

polypody

laurel

cheque

place

slate

stealthy

slate

slate

sneak

to hide

hillside

spot

width

minor

melancholy

to soothe

flatfish

accent

speaking with an accent

leather

latitude

magic

to make broader or wider

to speak

speaker

spokesperson

speech

milk

feeble

smallest; least

minimum

minimal

nun

nunhood

nunlike

nunnery

assassin

thief

lessening

lessen

vocalisation

to sing

vocal

lye

vocalist

veil

literature

a regiment

a legionary

diaphragm

to veil

author

filler

to fill

clergyman

to practise literature

literature

literary

local

to locate

location

benefit

to be beneficial

weak

to languish

languor

fit

beneficial

obstacle

hindrance

to hinder

dish

awkward

clumsiness

overwhelming

slope

to quell

sloping

ladle

inn

hospitable

hospitality

light

to louse

moon

lunar

louse

halo

lion

leopard

pang

faint

light

to shine

bright

linen

mob

anger

gate

saw

to flow

to saw

to flow

alluvium

line

lineage

snare

to strangle

line

to draw a line

ruler

to ease

linear

finch

string

limp

weakling

lesson

slippery

to slip

paint

colorful

colorfulness