xxii 28, yr hên bobl Es. xliv 7, etc. In the comparatively rare cases where hen follows its noun, some antithetic emphasis is generally implied, as Ieuan Tew Hên ‘Ieuan Tew the Elder’.
- Er daëd draw, rai llawen,
- Mae gwae rhai am y gŵr hên.—W.Ỻ.
‘However good [they may be] yonder, genial [young] people, the lament of some is for the old master.’
(3) gwir ‘true, genuine’, as gwir grefydd ‘true religion’. As an ordinary adjective it means ‘true to fact’, as hanes gwir ‘a true story’; so as the second element of a compound: géir-wir ‘truthful’. gwir is also a noun ‘truth’; compounded, cás-wir ‘unpalatable truth’.
(4) gau ‘false’, the antithesis of gwir, as geu ẟwyeu Ỻ.A. 43 ‘false gods’, gau broffioyd ‘false prophet’. As an ordinary adjective ‘lying’; as a noun ‘falsehood’ W.M. 29.
(5) cam ‘wrong, unjust’; as cam farn ‘false judgement’, cam ran ‘wrongful portion’, i.e. injustice. As an adj. ‘crooked’, as ffon gam ‘a crooked stick’; as a noun ‘injustice’.
- Tasgu bu twysog y byd
- Gam ran i Gymru ennyd.—S.T., c. ii 209.
‘The prince of this world has inflicted wrong on Wales awhile.’
(6) unig ‘only’; yr unig beth ‘the only thing’. As an ordinary adj. it means ‘lonely’, as dyn unig ‘a lonely man’. Cf. Fr. seul.
(7) y naill, rhyw, y rhyw, amryw, cyfryw, unrhyw, holl, cwbl, y sawl, ychydig, ambell, aml, lliaws, etc., §§ 165, 168, 169.
iv. The following words precede adjectives, and are compounded with them:
(1) lled ‘half’ § 153 (12), as lléd-wac b.b. 49 ‘half-empty’, lled-ffer m.a. ii 586 ‘half-wild’, lléd-ffol ‘half-silly’, lled-ffrom ‘half-frowning’.
- Nid mawr well nad meirw i wŷr,
- Lléd féirw̯ pan golled f’éryr;
- Nid byw am enaid y byd,
- Lléd-fyw yngweddill ádfyd.—T.A., a 14874/127.
‘It is not much better that his men are not dead, [they were] half- dead when my eagle was lost; they were not alive for [want of him who was] the soul of the world, [but] half-alive in the dregs of adversity.’
