fun how rŵan and nawr are pretty much the same word backwards! is that how either of them originated or is it just a fun coincidence? (I imagine the latter is more likely?)
It's just a very fun coincidence!
The southern 'nawr' is just a compounded version of 'yn awr', which means 'at this hour', while the northern 'rŵan' is derived from 'yr awr hon', which means 'this hour'.
So two very similar phrases with almost identical meanings, but very coincidentally turned into backwards versions of each other!
























