instead of as on the anal. of ae ‘who…him’;—rel. nyw < nuy (≡ nw͡y) < *no ĭ, see ii (2).
(3) Affixed.—The substantive forms are the same as the independent forms. Auxiliary: i, b.b. ‑e (≡ ɥ) < *iᵹ < *egō: Lat. ego, Gk. ἔγω, etc.; originally used as subject after a verb, it came to supplement a 1st sg. pron. in other cases;—di, b.b. ‑de < *tu;—ni, b.b. ‑ne < *nes or *nos (which may have become nom. like nōs in Lat.).
¶ For pronouns suffixed to prepositions see §§ 208–212.
Possessive Adjectives.
§ 161. i. A possessive adjective was placed after its noun, which was usually preceded by the article, as y tŷ tau D.G. 18 ‘thy house’, sometimes by a pref. or inf. pron., as ẏ’th wyndut teu r.p. 1202 ‘to thy paradise’; rarely it was added to an indefinite noun, as
- Ac i wneuthur mesurau
- O benillion mwynion mau.—D.G. 289.
‘And to make measures out of sweet verses of mine.’
The above adnominal use is common as a poetical construction; in prose it survived only in one or two phrases like y rei eiẟaw Ỻ.A. 20 “suos”. Ordinarily the possessive adjective stands as the complement of the verbs ‘to be’, ‘to become’, etc., as malpei teu vei r.m. 127 ‘as if it were thine’; or is used substantially preceded by the article, as arnaf i ac ar y meu s.g. 268 ‘on me and on mine’.
ii. (1) The forms of the possessive adjectives in use in Ml. W. are the following-:
| Sg. | 1. meu | Pl. | 1. einym |
| 2. teu | 2. einwch | ||
| 3. m. eiẟaw, f. eiẟi | 3. eiẟunt |
In Mn. W. the first three forms became mau, tau, eiddo, by the regular change of final syllables; and new forms of the 1st and 2nd persons arose; see iii.
See Ml.W. einym r.m. 132, eiẟunt do. 26, eiẟi w.m. 476; einwch etc. see below. The form eiẟẏaw Ỻ.A. 129 shows i̯ after ei § 35 ii; but the present N.W. sound is euddo with no trace of ‑i̯- before ‑o, and the intrusion is only sporadic in Ml. W.
(2) The above forms are sometimes extended by the addition of auxiliary affixed pronouns; thus meu i or meu inneu, teu di or
