A couple of days back my Dad asked me what Borth-y-Gest actually means, when we picked up the children from school. I knew the first bit. Borth is a mutation of port, like in harbour, but I wasn't and am still not sure about the 'Gest'.
I found this on internet:
'Y Gestiana was the name of an 1892 book on the history of nearby Borth-y-Gest by the writer, printer and pharmacist R Isaac Jones (1813-1905). The name was applied to a three-masted schooner, built in 1893, and again to the last ship built in Porthmadog.'
The nearby hill is called Moel y Gest. I'll have to do some more browsing.
Photo's are shot with the Olympus OM20, using Kodak Tri X film roll, in the first two weeks of February this year.
Borth y Gest never changes does it -- great shot !
I have come up with a possible answer as to the name of the village . As you already know Borth (or Porth ) means Port or Harbour and my Welsh dictionary has Cest (y Gest ) to mean a receptacle , bowl or belly . Borth-y-gest is described as a village in a shallow bowl which sweeps down to the sheltered bay !! So do you think this is the answer !
@beryl sounds perfect! So two mutations, borth and gest (porth and cest). Thanks! Moel y Gest is then something like hill along the shallow sheltered bay?! :-)
Well I see you can even make a good composition with film! :-) Nice shot! Exposure and focussing good too. Cest means receptacle or belly so Borth y Gest could mean 'Gateway to the bowl (bay?)'. A long shot coul be 'Gost' - a drop or fall (e.g as in hillside or cliff) ... Y Gest could be a corruption of Y Gost, so Borth Y Gest could mean Gateway through the hill (to the vallley?) Do either of these descriptions fit the scene? If not, how about Gest meaning 'paunch' - a variation on belly. Could be the shape of Moel y Gest ('Bare Hill of the Paunch)... so Borth a Gest might have taken its name from the hill.
@yrhenwr all very plausible explanations, I'm going to collect hem.
The hill was there way before the village, though I wonder when the hill got named. I guess when they started mapping them.
May 1st, 2017
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I have come up with a possible answer as to the name of the village . As you already know Borth (or Porth ) means Port or Harbour and my Welsh dictionary has Cest (y Gest ) to mean a receptacle , bowl or belly . Borth-y-gest is described as a village in a shallow bowl which sweeps down to the sheltered bay !! So do you think this is the answer !
The hill was there way before the village, though I wonder when the hill got named. I guess when they started mapping them.