Pronounced: in-GUR-jih-tate, verb
Notes: Interesting word, but it’s new to me
Yesterday’s word
The word eisteddfod is “a (usually Welsh) competitive festival of the arts especially in poetry and singing”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1800s
Background / Comments
As the spelling (especially the double-‘d’) indicates, this is a Welsh word; my understanding is that the Welsh letter ‘dd’ is pronounced like the ‘th’ in “then”. Our word comes from the Welsh word esiteddfod (session). The eisteddfod goes back to Medieval times, but the practice had declined by the 1600s. It was in the 1800s that they came back. My reference material says that there is still a National Eidsteddfod of Wales held each year – there are awards for music, prose, drama, and art, but the main event is poetry.
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