why is st david’s day ‘dydd gŵyl Dewi Sant’ in welsh as opposed to ‘Dydd Gŵyl sant Dewi?’

because we say: diwrnod SANTES Dwynwen
or SANT Meiriadog. Is it just something that changed over the years in spoken welsh?

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2 Responses to “why is st david’s day ‘dydd gŵyl Dewi Sant’ in welsh as opposed to ‘Dydd Gŵyl sant Dewi?’”

  1. Ty H Says:
    November 18th, 2009 at 8:52 pm

    Just the way somebody interpreted it a long time ago. No one has had the sense to change it to what it should be.

  2. gwreichion Says:
    November 30th, 2009 at 7:28 am

    Because like most languages the noun precedes the adjective.

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