bara a chaws

Welsh

Noun

(collocation) bread and cheese
bread-and-cheese, hawthorn leaves (as food)

Usage notes

Except after ei (“her”), use of the aspirate mutation is rare in the colloquial language. However it remains common in idioms and collocations such as this one.

Derived terms

bara a chaws y gog, bara caws y gog (“wood sorrel”)
bara a chaws y gwcw, bara caws y gwcw (“wood sorrel; common sorrel”)
bara a chawsa, barachawsa (“to collect bread and cheese”)
pren bara a chaws (“hawthorn tree”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *bara a chaws*
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bara a chaws	fara a chaws	mara a chaws	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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