Welsh Titles -- Arglwyddes/Bonesig/Boneddiges
Stress in Welsh is easy. In any word longer than one syllable, the emphasis is always on the next-to-last syllable.


bonesig
‹bo- ne -sig› feminine noun
1 (title) Lady (peer; wife of a peer)
Y Fonesig Rees Lady Rees

ETYMOLOGY: Michael D. Jones (the founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia) coined the word boneddes (= lady) (First example c.1876).

This is (bonedd = nobility) + (-es noun suffix indicating a female); by removing the syllable -edd he came up with the reduced form Bones

Bonesig (First example c. 1898) is (bones = lady) + (-ig diminutive suffix added to nouns)

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boneddigion ‹bo ne DHIG yon› (npl)
1 nobility,

boneddiges, PLURAL: boneddigesau ‹bo ne DHI ges, bo ne dhi GE se› (feminine noun)
1 noblewoman
y foneddiges the noblewoman