Sut mae, beldroedwyr!

Finally a Saturday is a real Saturday again: Our German Bundesliga is back in full swing – yay! No doubt this will be one of the hot topics in my courses next week (courses are about to start again, too!). Meaning now is the perfect time to take a closer look at some English, Welsh and German football terms.

Creating word fields like this one for “football” is a great exercise and will provide you with many new and interesting insights into your target language – as well as into your own language. For example, I’d never realized that in German we actually use the word “Halbzeit” for the interval as well as for both halves of the game. How weird is that?

Anyway & beth bynnag. Here is my personal tri-lingual world-field list for “pêl-droed” (first draft, to be extended and improved in the future – as always):

English	Cymraeg (Welsh)	Deutsch (German)
football	pêl-droed	Fußball
club	clwb	Club, Verein
league	cynghrair	Liga
team	tîm	Mannschaft, Team, Elf
national team	tîm cenedlaethol	Nationalmannschaft
game, match	gêm	Spiel, Partie, Begegnung
international (game)	gêm ryngwladol	Länderspiel
playoff	gêm ail gyfle	Rückspiel
derby	gêm ddarbi	Derby
player	chwaraewr (♂) chwaraewraig (♀)	Spieler (♂) Spielerin (♀)
footballer	peldroediwr (♂) peldroediwraig (♀)	Fußballer (♂) Fußballerin (♀)
kick	cic	Schuss
corner kick	cic gornel	Eckstoß
to kick	cicio	kicken, schießen
to dribble	driblo	dribbeln
pass	pàs	Pass
goal	gôl	Tor
goal kick	cic gôl	Torschuss
own goal	gôl i’w rwyd ei hun	Eigentor
winning goal	gôl fuddugol	Siegtreffer
equaliser	gôl gyfartal	Ausgleichstreffer, Ausgleich
hat-trick	tair gôl	Hattrick
to score	sgorio	ein Tor schießen, treffen
to mark	marcio	decken
header	peniad	Kopfball
position	safle	Position
goalkeeper	gôl-geidwad, golwr (♂) golwraig (♀)	Torwart, Torhüter (♂) Torhüterin (♀)
defender	amddiffynwr (♂) amddiffynwraig (♀)	Verteidiger (♂) Verteidigerin (♀)
midfielder	chwaraewr canol cae chwaraewraig ganol cae (♀)	Mittelfeldspieler Mittelfeldspielerin (♀)
forward	ymosodwr, blaenwr (♂) ymosodwraig, blaenwraig (♀)	Stürmer (♂) Stürmerin (♀)
wing	asgell	Flügel
captain	capten	Mannschaftsführer, Kapitän (♂) Mannschaftsführerin (♀)
substitute	eilydd	Ersatzspieler (♂) Ersatzspielerin (♀)
substitutes bench	mainc	Ersatzbank, Bank
coach	hyfforddwr (♂) hyfforddwraig (♀)	Trainer (♂) Trainerin (♀)
manager	rheolwr (♂) rheolwraig (♀)	Manager (♂) Managerin (♀)
referee	dyfarnwr (♂) dyfarnwraig (♀)	Schiedsrichter (♂) Schiedsrichterin (♀)
assistant referee	dyfarnwr cynorthwyol (♂) dyfarnwraig gynorthwyol (♀)	Schiedsrichterassistent (♂)  Schiedsrichterassistentin (♀)
video technology	technoleg fideo	Videobeweis
throw-in	tafliad	Einwurf
foul	trosedd	Foul
injury	anaf	Verletzung
hand-ball	llawiad	Hand, Handspiel
yellow card	cerdyn melyn	gelbe Karte
red card	cerdyn coch	rote Karte
free kick	cic rydd	Freistoß
penalty	cic gosb, cic o’r smotyn	Stafstoß, Elfmeter
penalty spot	smotyn gwyn	Elfmeterpunkt
to set up wall	gosod mur	eine Mauer bilden
offside	camsefyll	Abseits
offside trap	trap camsefyll	Abseitsfalle
starting whistle	chwiban gychwyn	Anpfiff
kick-off	cic gychwyn	Anstoß
first half	hanner cyntaf	erste Halbzeit
interval	egwyl	Halbzeit, Halbzeitpause
second half	ail hanner	zweite Halbzeit
extra time	amser pellach	Verlängerung
penalty shootout	gornest ciciau o’r smotyn	Elfmeterschießen
pitch	cae	(Fußball-) Feld
centre circle	cylch canol	Mittelkreis
halfway line	llinell hanner ffordd	Mittellinie
sideline	llinell ystlys	Seitenlinie
goal line	llinell gôl	Torlinie
penalty area, box	cwrt cosbi	Strafraum
penalty spot	smotyn gwyn	Elfmeterpunkt
stadium	stadiwm	Stadion
fan, supporter	ffan, cefnogwr (♂) cefnogwraig (♀)	Fan

If you want more football terms or more word lists, it’s always a good idea to go to the site of Y Termiadur Addysg provided by Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University. Or start wordfield farming yourself. Or do a combination of both!

Next time on this site: My big dictionary test! Follow me to stay posted!

Pob hwyl!

Siw

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