What’s in a name – Cwm Brwynog
What’s in a name – yn Gymraeg? Friday musings on Eryri place names.
Last week, Bwlch y Moch…
This week…’Cwm Brwynog’ – cwm is used for ‘steep valley/corrie/cirque’ etc, maybe from Breton (komm) for ‘trough’ or Irish (comm) for ‘dish’ – which can be seen to derive from the Greek for cup/bowl/boat (kumbe).
Think ‘Khumbu’?! And ‘brwynog’ to mean ‘belonging to the rushes’.
Cwm Brwynog, once used extensively for summer grazing with related settlements and buildings, is now a quiet grazing valley which is devoid of many passers by.
It is pretty wet underfoot, too, but a lovely detour from Bwlch Brwynog where the Snowdon Ranger path meets with the steep zig zags up the ridge of Clogwyn D’ur Arddu.
(We’ll return to ‘Clogwyn’ another time!)
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