This is a list of English language words of Welsh language origin. As with the Goidelic languages, the Brythonic tongues are close enough for possible derivations from Cumbric, Cornish or Breton in some cases. Beyond the acquisition of common nouns, there are numerous English toponyms, surnames, personal names or nicknames derived from Welsh (see Celtic toponymy, Celtic onomastics). List As main word choice for meaning bara brith speckled bread. Traditional Welsh bread flavoured with tea, dried fruits and mixed spices. bard from Old Celtic bardos, either through Welsh bardd (where the bard was highly respected) or Scottish bardis (where it was a term of contempt); Cornish bardh cawl a traditional Welsh soup/stew; Cornish kowl coracle from corwgl. This Welsh term was derived from the Latin corium meaning "leather or hide", the material from which coracles are made. corgi from cor, "dwarf" + gi (soft mutation of ci), "dog". cwm (very specific geographic sense today) or coomb (dated). Cornish; komm; passed into Old English where sometimes written 'cumb' flannel the Oxford English Dictionary says the etymology is "uncertain", but Welsh gwlanen = "flannel wool" is likely. An alternative source is Old French flaine, "blanket". The word has been adopted in most European languages. An earlier English form was flannen, which supports the Welsh etymology. Shakspeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor contains the term "the Welsh flannel". flummery from llymru pikelet a type of small, thick pancake. Derived from the Welsh bara pyglyd, meaning "pitchy [i.e. dark or sticky] bread", later shortened simply to pyglyd; The early 17th century lexicographer, Randle Cotgrave, spoke of "our Welsh barrapycleds". The word spread initially to the West Midlands of England, where it was anglicised to picklets and then to pikelets. The first recognisable crumpet-type recipe was for picklets, published in 1769 by Elizabeth Raffald in The Experienced English Housekeeper. wrasse a kind of sea fish (derived via Cornish wrach, Welsh gwrach (meaning hag or witch)). Esoteric or specialist cist (archaeological) a stone-lined coffin cromlech from crom llech literally "crooked flat stone" crwth "a bowed lyre" kistvaen from cist (chest) and maen (stone). lech /lɛk/ capstone of a cromlech, see above tref meaning “hamlet, home, town.”; Cornish tre. Words with indirect or possible links Similar cognates across Goidelic (gaelic), Latin, Old French and the other Brittonic families makes isolating a precise origin hard. This applies to cross from Latin crux, Old Irish cros overtaking Old English