wefan

wefan is the Welsh-language term used to refer to a website, or more broadly to the World Wide Web, in Welsh-language contexts. It appears in media, education, technology documentation, and user interfaces to denote online pages published on the Internet.

In contemporary Welsh, the word may appear as wefan or gwefan, with the form chosen according to sentence structure and mutation rules. The term is standard in online media and software localization when producing Welsh-language content. It is commonly used in phrases describing online presence, such as official website, which may be rendered in Welsh as gwefan swyddogol, depending on the publisher’s terminology.

Etymology and usage notes: the term is a Welsh adaptation arising from borrowing the English word web and attaching a Welsh noun-forming suffix. The result is a general, everyday term for websites within Welsh-language discourse. In practice, broader phrases and more precise terminology may be used for specific kinds of online pages or services, but wefan serves as the common core term.

Relation to related terms: wefan coexists with other Welsh digital vocabulary, including rhyngrwyd for the Internet, and it appears in government portals, educational resources, and technology documentation to describe online content. The choice between wefan and gwefan reflects orthographic and mutational conventions rather than differing meanings.

See also: rhyngrwyd; web as a loanword context in Welsh; Welsh language technology lexicon.