senedd
/ˈsɛ.nɛð/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The Welsh Parliament.
Example Sentences
- "[Keith] Starmer's premiership unravelled after he failed to halt a slide in Labour's polling and suffered a devastating series of setbacks in the May elections in the Scottish parliament, Welsh Senedd and English councils."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱómder.? Proto-Indo-European *sem-der.? Proto-Hellenic *ksún Ancient Greek σύν (sún) Ancient Greek σῠν- (sŭn-) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sodós? Proto-Hellenic *hodós Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós) Ancient Greek σῠ́νοδος (sŭ́nodos)bor. Latin synodusbor. Middle Welsh seneð Welsh senedd Welsh Seneddubor. English Senedd Unadapted borrowing from Welsh Senedd, from senedd, from Middle Welsh seneð, borrowed from Latin synodus. Doublet of synod. Compare Middle Breton senez (“synod”) and phonetically Old English senoþ, Middle High German senet. Later likely influenced by or merged with Latin senātus.
Inflected Forms
the Senedd (canonical)