Re: What does gewni mean? (Maltese or Welsh)

On 8 Oct, 05:24, "Paul J Kriha" <paul.nospam.kr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"Logician" <sa...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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I think the word is welsh or from Malta. Does anyone know the meaning
of it?

Could it be an occasional misspelling or abbreviation of a Welsh
word beginning with "gweni"?
pjk


The overwhelming majority of the Google hits are indeed in Welsh or
Maltese. The Welsh ones seem to be a spelling of 'gewn ni', with soft
mutation of 'c' and a slightly non-standard vowel, from the normal
word 'cawn', 1st person plural present/future (only future in
colloquial Welsh) of 'cael' 'to get, be allowed' (plus 'ni', the
pronoun 'we'). A few random examples from the Google hits;

dwin falch genti laptop so gewni siarad ar internet
I'm glad you've got a laptop so we'll be able to chat on the Internet

gobeithio gewni dros 5 gol yfory
hope we'll get over 5 goals tomorrow

dwi rilli excited i ddod adra de gewni celabratio penblwydd chdi efo
I'm really excited to come home and we'll be able to celebrate your
birthday

wel gewni weld am hynna
Well, we'll see about that.

This is all very colloquial (including some really grating Anglicisms)
and I don't guarantee my translations 100%, but that should give you
some idea.

My Maltese is much more limited and my small dictionary certainly does
not give 'gewni' as a form (with either sort of 'g', a necessary
proviso since the Google hits are invariably ASCII rather than any
form of Maltese uncoding as I see them). However my Maltese morphology
is so bad that I may well be missing something very obvious.


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