Welsh Road Sign

@ArishMell Surely the same way that English does: invent some, steal some from other languages.

Trying out a few things in Google Translate suggests that the Welsh invent more than borrow.

English: I am an embedded controller designer.
Welsh: Rwy'n ddylunydd rheolydd gwreiddio.

English: My phone connects via satellite.
Welsh: Mae fy ffôn yn cysylltu trwy loeren.

I back translated several times to be sure that it worked in both directions.

Perhaps @TheSirfurryanimalWales could comment on the quality, or lack of quality, of Google's translations.

@ninalanyon I am impressed! It's less difficult when the technical terms use ordinary words with everyday meanings.


'Connect'?
As in the name of the famous canal aqueduct on the Llangollen Canal?

@ninalanyon Sometimes I can query it's Welsh translations...but it's pretty good with Welsh.
Popty Ping is Microwave!
....
English: My phone connects via satellite.
Welsh: Mae fy ffôn yn cysylltu trwy loeren
I would say that should be Mae ffôn fi

@ArishMell Pontcysyllte is literally the connecting bridge.
Bont Bridge
Cysyllte connecting

@TheSirfurryanimalWales Thankyou! I've seen it spelled "Pont", too, elsewhere: by dialect or grammar?

@ArishMell I should have put Pont.
I was thinking of Y Bont...where the 'P' becomes a'B'.

@TheSirfurryanimalWales Ah, I see! The village of Pont Nedd Fechan puzzles me a bit.

I know it means "Little [River] Neath Bridge, but the Anglicised word on the dual-language signpost has "Pont Neath Vaughan". Is that to make a version easier to pronounce for us beyond the Severn?

@ArishMell the English and Welsh names for places are not always translations of each other.
That one requires some research.
Aaah....Vaughan means small.So that explains it.
A couple of examples near me..
Newport is Casnewydd.Casnewydd means Newcastle.
Newbridge is Trecelyn.Trecelyn means Hollytown.

@TheSirfurryanimalWales I'd thought Vaughan was a semi-phonetic equivalent of the pronounciation Vechan of 'Fechan' - the ch as in the Scottish loch and the German name Bach (e.g. the composers) so not easy for English people.

I see what you mean. I've just been looking in my road atlas. Even quite a number of the un-translated Welsh names seem to have an alternative nothing like the "big"name printed on the map.

A friend once asked a resident in that village, the correct pronunciation of Ystradfellte. He had a strong Scots accent and trying to copy what he'd been told, totally floored him.