Why this word is great
HWYL — [Noun] A fervent, melodic, and emotionally charged style of chanting, especially associated with Welsh preaching. Borrowed from Welsh hwyl, which itself derives from Middle Welsh hwyl, meaning 'sail, sheet' and by extension 'mood, fervor, journey'. Unlike a "sermon," which traffics in the architecture of doctrine, or a "recitation," which is a flat echo from memory, hwyl is the vessel of emotion itself—the wind and wave of oratory that carries doctrine into ecstasy. It is the preacher’s voice climbing like smoke in chapel rafters, the palpable shiver that passes through a congregation as one, and the rhythmic swell that transforms a chapel into the hold of a ship—the sound of a soul setting sail.