Is it true there are no swear words in Welsh?

Question

I heard this somewhere, that you have to use a whole phrase to swear because there are no rude words. Is it true?

Diolch

Answer 1

I know some but they'll get deleted if i tell you.  

Answer 2

Welsh "swear words" are so long, and so difficult to pronounce, that all Welsh speakers are unbearable polite, lest they get upset and have to make one of these difficult utterances...

A oes arnoch eisiau cwpanaid o de?

Answer 3

Cotsan, cachu, pibo, cwd, cedors, piso, rhech, haliwr, ffwcio..

coc yn dîn, tinwr.... how many do you want?

"Go and play with your grannie's f***y", here in the North would be..

"Dôs i chwara efo cotsan dy nain".

Answer 4

No of course there are swear words,

Na wrth gwrs mae 'na geiriau rhegi yn yr iaith Gymraeg

Ewch i - Go to

http://www.rhegiadur.com/

Mae nifer o eiriau rhegi yno,

There are many swear words there.

I speak Welsh every day and i won't lie i have been known to swear

Word's i use

Cachwr - Basically s*****r.

Coeliwr - Someone who play's with themselves

Sgithen / Sgithan (north)

Hwren - Woman who sleeps about

Ast / Jadan - Female dog.

Betsi - A feminine Male.

Pwdryn - Lazy person who doesn't do nothing

Cer i grafu - Go and scratch, (I'll leave you figure this out.

Cnachia - Basiclly do one,

Gotsan - Womans part

Ffwrches - Womens part in my Dialect

Cer i ware gyda gotsen dy fam-gu (Go and play with you'r grandmothers """") In my dialect.

Answer 5

Hahaha- just for the record, the "curse phrase" quoted by Joseph F means "would you like a cup of tea?"

I am not a native Welsh speaker but I am told that the verb "cnachu" is very Welsh, very succinct and very rude.

Answer 6

officially no, but local lingo there is

Answer 7

That's interesting. I know nothing about Welsh. But Hebrew has no swear words. Speakers of Hebrew have to "borrow" cuss words from Arabic, Russian or other languages. I wonder how many other languages have no swear words?

Answer 8

I don't know of any language that doesn't have swear words. some good examples of welsh ones above! (Da iawn Cymro!)