Annwyl Berwyn Prys Jones - Cymdeithas Cyfieithwyr Cymru

calonogi – to boost (some)one’s morale/spirit
calonogol – encouraging, welcome, reassuring, morale-boosting
call: gair i gall – handy tip(s), useful hint(s), a word of warning/in your ear; wyt ti’n gall (dwed)? – are you
mad/bonkers?, you’re mad/bonkers, you must me mad/bonkers
callio – to come to one’s senses, to wise up, to become wiser, to grow wiser, to see sense; gwneud/peri iddynt
gallio – to bring them to their senses
cam – move, stage; distorted; c. wrth gam – systematically, in easy/by stages; cymryd c.-au – to take action/
measures; yn gam neu’n gymwys – rightly or wrongly; c. ymlaen – an advance; unioni c. – to remedy
an injustice; c. doeth yw ... – it is wise to ...; c. synhwyrol yw ... – it makes sense to ...; ar gam –
unjustly, in error, unfairly; fe dybir ar gam fod/mai/y – there is a false perception that; bu hyn yn gam
ffrwythlon – this proved (to be) fruitful; o gam i gam – step by step, gradually; c.-au gweithredu –
course of action; cael c. – to be hard done by, to be wronged, to be dealt with unfairly, to have/get a raw
deal, to be robbed (figurative sense); bod yn/wedi cymryd c.-au bras i – to be well on the way to;
gwneud c. â/ag ... – to misrepresent ..., to do ... an injustice; mynd gam/un c. ymhellach – to go one
better; y c. gorau i chi (ei gymryd) fyddai ... – it would be in your best interest(s) to ...
camargraff – a misleading/wrong impression; c. gyffredin yw credu bod – it is a common misapprehension;
bod o dan gamargraff – to labour under a misapprehension
camddeall: paid/peidiwch â’m c. – don’t get me wrong, don’t get hold of the wrong end of the stick
camgymeriad: c. fyddai ... – it would be wrong to
camp – achievement; tan gamp – excellent; y gamp yw – the difficulty/trick/skill is to; y gamp ddwbl – the
double accolade (of)
campus: cyfle c. – a prime opportunity
campwaith – tour de force
camsyniad – fallacy
camsynied – to be mistaken
camu: c. ymlaen – to proceed; c.’n ôl – to revert, to regress
cân: diwedd y gân yw’r geiniog – it all comes down to money (in the end), money rules OK
canfed: mae’n talu ar ei ganfed – it/this pays handsome/rich dividends, it/this well repays ..., it/this really pays
dividends
canfod – to find, to discover, to appreciate, to discern, to detect, to diagnose; c. anghenion – to identify needs;
c. pwysigrwydd – to recognise the importance of; c. cyfle – to spot an opportunity
caniataol: cymryd yn ganiataol – to take for granted, to assume
canlyniad – outcome, upshot; o ganlyniad – as a consequence, as a result, in consequence; o ganlyniad – this
will lead/leads to
canllaw – guideline, support; llyfryn c. – guide
canmil: c. gwell – vastly improved
canmol – to extol, to applaud
canmoladwy – commendable, meritorious, laudable
canmoliaeth – acclaim
cannwyll: c. eu llygaid – the apple of their eye; dal c. i – to bear/stand comparison with
canol: bod yn ei chanol hi – to be in the wars
canolbwynt – focus, mid-point
canolbwyntio: c.-wyd ar ... – ... became the focal point; c.-ir ar … – the focus is on …
canolig – medium, modest; c. eu maint – medium-sized
canolog – core, pivotal; egwyddor ganolog – (a) guiding principle; athro-ganolog – teacher-centred; lle c. –
centrality
cant: c. a mil o – a whole host/raft of, many and varied, innumerable, any number of ; cannoedd ar gannoedd –
(many) hundreds
canu: c. clodydd – to celebrate; mae hi wedi c. arna i – I am doomed/finished/done for/lost; c. grwndi – to
purr; dos i ganu! – get lost!; c.’n iach i … – to wave goodbye to
carfan – cohort, group, section
cariad: does fawr o gariad atynt – they are disliked
carlam: cwrs c. – crash course; cynyddu ar garlam – to really gather pace
carn: yn garn i’w dadl – in support of their argument; i’r c. – totally, wholeheartedly; cytuno i’r c. – to be in
complete agreement
carpiog – tattered, tatty
carreg: c. filltir – landmark
cartref: c. ... yw ... – ... is/are housed in ...; ymhellach oddi c. – further afield
cartrefol: gwneud i chi deimlo’n gartrefol/fwy c. – to put you at your ease/make you feel at ease
carthu – to muck out, to remove
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