pawb

Middle Welsh

Alternative forms
  • paup

Etymology

From Old Welsh paup, from Proto-Brythonic *pọb, from Proto-Celtic *kʷākʷos (compare Old Irish cách), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂-kʷo-; cognate with Old Church Slavonic какъ (kakŭ, “what kind of”) and Lithuanian kõks (“what kind of”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pau̯b/

Determiner

pawb

  1. each, every

Pronoun

pawb

  1. everyone, everybody

Mutation
Middle Welsh mutation
RadicalSoftNasalAspirate
pawbbawbpawb / phawb
pronounced with /m̥-/		phawb
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh pawb; see pob for more.

Pronunciation

Determiner

pawb

  1. (literary) Synonym of pob

Pronoun

pawb

  1. everyone, everybody

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
pawb bawb mhawb phawb
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Angharad Fychan and Ann Parry Owen, editors (2014), “pawb”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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