Originally Posted By: Faldage
[quote=elifit]

I don't know about the stress structure in Welsh, but the W is a full-on vowel. Arwyn is pronounced something like Ahr-oo-in.


You mean W in English? It's a semi vowel so yes it can act as vowel in certain conditions. Do you mean that Ar-w-yn has 3 syllables? and you pronounce w as [u]?? Makes sense, shall we take Ailyn then?
Ai-lyn has two syllables. First syllable accented, hence long diphthong [ei] and shwa or short [i] in the second, right?
Anyway, I meant that unstressed syllables act as shwas or short vowels, so it's best to come up with short words with the _y_ structure. wink