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From Middle Breton guern, from Old Breton guern, guaern, from Proto-Brythonic *gwern, from Proto-Celtic *wernā (compare Gaulish uerna, Old Irish fern and French vergne).

• IPA(key): /ɡwɛrn/

gwern ? (plural gwernioù, singulative gwernenn)

1. alders

gwern f (plural gwernioù)

1. mast
2. swamp

From Old Cornish guern, from Proto-Brythonic *gwern, from Proto-Celtic *wernā (compare Gaulish uerna, Old Irish fern and French vergne).

• IPA(key): /ɡwɛrn/

gwern m (singulative gwernen, plural gwernennow or gwernednow)

1. (collective) alder
   1. swamp, marsh, marshland
2. (in the singular) mast

From Proto-Brythonic *gwern, from Proto-Celtic *wernā (compare Old Irish fern). Cognate with Old Armenian գերան (geran) and Albanian verr (“alder”).

• IPA(key): /ɡwɛrn/

gwern f pl (singulative gwernen, plural gwerni or gwernydd or gwernau or gwernenni or gwernennau)

1. alders (Alnus)
   1. masts of ships
      Synonym: hwylbrenni
   2. (alder) sticks, staves, shafts of lances
2. made of alder, aldern
3. alder carr, alder grove, alder marsh, swamp
   Synonym: gwernllwyn
   1. (sometimes figuratively) hell

• boda gwerni (“marsh harrier”)

• boled gwern (“alder bolete”)

• bras gwerni (“swamp sparrow”)

• cap gwernydd (“alder cap”)

• cap llaeth gwernydd (“alder milkcap”)

• cwpan gwern (“alder goblet”)

• gwern fawr (“mainmasts”)

• gwern flaen (“foremasts”)

• gwern gwerdd (“green alders”)

• gwern ôl (“mizzenmasts”)

• gwernllwyn (“alder grove”)

• gwernog (“abounding in alders”)

• gwybedog y gwern (“alder flycatcher”)

• telor y gwerni (“marsh warbler”)

• titw'r wern (“marsh tit”)

• ysgwydd y gwern (“alder bracket”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gwern”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies