Whats Welsh for Zen?
As far as I can discover – Zen, although the spelling may differ. ‘Z’ does not exist in the Welsh alphabet, and there is no letter or letters which take it’s place to form the same sound as in English. Where the Welsh alphabet does not allow close sounds for what are commonly termed ‘loaned’ words the spelling of the word is transposed directly and then altered to accomodate the part of the word that can be ‘spelled’ in Welsh. The closest example of this I can think of is the Welsh for ‘Zoo’, which is spelled ‘Zw’ and sounds (accent apart) identical to the English word. I think ‘Zen’ is likely to be pronounced as the English, but spelled ‘Zn’, if it is spelled differently at all. But I just live here and am not a fluent speaker by any means.
