Pâl: Puffin (also spade)

By Joshua Morgan, Sketchy Welsh

Pâl: puffin, also spade
Palau: spades
Palod: puffins

Mae dau bopti o boptu i’r palod
There are two ovens on either side of the puffins

Disgynnodd y nifer o adar y pâl ar yr ynys
The number of puffins on the island dropped

Disgyn: to decend, to drop

Pig: a beak
Pigau: beaks

Mae pig llachar y pâl, sy’n rhoi iddo’r enw ‘parot y môr’
The puffin has a bright beak, which gives it the name ‘parrot of the sea’

parot y môr: parrot of the sea (Colloquial name for a puffin)

Môr-leidr: sea thief (a pirate)

parot y môr-leidr: a pirate’s parrot

Mae’r palod sy’n byw ar Ynys Sgomer yn denu ymwelwyr o bell
ac efallai bydd mwy o bobl nag erioed yn teithio yno eleni
The puffins that live on Skomer Island attract visitors from far and wide
and there may be more people than ever traveling there this year

Dau fynydd o boptu i Bant Glas
Two mountains on either side of Bant Glas