How to use TermCymru

TermCymru is based on an English>Welsh terminology database, therefore please note that details such as parts of speech etc are not recorded for the English terms.

Here are some tips to help you search more effectively.

A search from the homepage

You can make general searches from the BydTermCymru homepage. If required, you can then filter the results further on the results page.

Searching for an English term, or a Welsh term?
You can search for English or Welsh terms by using the search box. You don't need to choose a language before searching for a term.

Searching for a specific phrase?
You don’t need to use double quote marks around those words. Any exact matches will appear towards the top of the results list.

Searching for a multi-word term or title?
It may be quicker to search for some of the more unusual words rather than the entire term or title, eg
"housing fraud detection" rather than" prevention of social housing fraud (detection of fraud) (wales) regulations".

Want to limit your results to a specific subject?
Choose that subject from the dropdown list and click on 'Search'.

Want to see all the records added or revised since the last update?

Make an empty search, which will display all records in the termbase, and sort the results by newest last updated date.

An advanced search

On the termCymru advanced search page, you can also make a search using filters to limit your results to:

• any subject, or combination of subjects
• any status, or combination of statuses
• any range of dates

On the results page

You can toggle between a tab with results from English terms and a tab with results from Welsh terms. The number of terms found in each language can be seen in brackets on the relevant tab. 

You will see all the details related to the terms found. 

On this page you can use the filters on the right to limit results to: 

• any subject, or combination of subjects
• any status, or combination of statuses
• any range of dates.

You can adjust the wording of the search on this page, and sort the results according to a range of options. 

TermCymru will search for the mutated forms of Welsh words in the termbase, as well as the unmutated form, eg a search for "Cymru" will find terms which include the forms "Cymru", "Gymru", "Chymru" and/or "Nghymru". The mutated forms will be found lower down the list of results.

When searching for English-language terms, TermCymru will also find variations on those English-language words. For example, a search for 'organisation' will also display terms including the words 'organisations', 'organised' and 'organising'. It will also find some specific spelling variations. For example, a search for 'organisation' will also display records including the words 'organization', and terms which include a hyphen will be displayed even if a hyphen was not typed into the search box.

You can click on a specific term to go to a page which displays that term alone. This facility might be useful if you'd like to send a link to a specific term to someone.