The story
- Welsh · borrowed fromllath“a rod”
- English todayWelsh yard
A calque of Welsh llath (“a rod”), similarly distinguished within Welsh as the llath Gymreig (“a Welsh rod”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Welsh yard
Today it means: The llath, a former Welsh unit of length equal to about 40 inches (about 1 m). Full definition →
Welsh llath