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From Proto-Brythonic *gwesk, from Proto-Celtic *weskā, itself from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to dress, clothe”).

Cognate with Latin vestis, English wear, Old Armenian զգեստ (zgest), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹 (wasti), Tocharian B wastsi, and Ancient Greek εἷμα (heîma, “garment”).

In Celtic, compare Old Cornish guisc, Breton gwisk.

• (North Wales) IPA(key): /ɡwiːsɡ/, [ɡwiːsk]
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ɡwɪsɡ/, [ɡwɪsk]
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /ɡwɪʃɡ/, [ɡwɪʃk]
• Rhymes: -ɪsɡ

gwisg f (plural gwisgoedd)

1. dress, apparel, clothing
2. covering, husk
   Synonyms: cragen, crogen, cibyn
3. (anatomy) amnion

• arwisg (“outer garment”)

• cregynwisg (“mother-of-pearl”)

• ffurfwisg (“uniform”)

• gwisgo (“to dress, to wear, to clothe”)

• harddwisg (“fine clothing”)

• marchredyn gwisg-euraid (“golden-scaled male-ferns”)

• swyddwisg (“uniform”)

• urddwisg (“vestment”)

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “gwisg”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin

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