minstrel: bardd

[Gwernin at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/7/2003 3:02:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, minstrel-request at pbm.com writes:

> --- nickolas kaugon <ollaimh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > i assure you it means minstral inaelic. andhas for a
> > few hundred years . in welsh i am no expert but i
> > thought they used a p instead of a b, and in welsh
> > like gaelic, poet and muscian are the same word.

Not true.  In Modern Welsh bardd = poet:

from The Welsh Pocket Dictionary / Y Geiriadur Bach (only one I have with me at work):

bardd, eg. ll. beirdd, cyfansoddwr barddoniaeth, prydydd, awenydd.  POET.

barddoni, be. cyfansoddi barddoniaeth, prydyddu.  TO COMPOSE POETRY.

poet, n. bardd, prydydd, awenydd.

musician, n.  cerddor.

- Guernen Cimarguid