(3) Adj. rhyw ‘a (certain), some’. The noun with which rhyw is compounded, see i, may be singular or plural.
r͑yv duted edmic b.b. 43 ‘an admirable covering’. r͑yw ẟavatenneu m.m. 6 (from r.b.) ‘some warts’. Yr oedd gan ryw ŵr ddau fab Luc xv 11 “ἄνθρωπός τις”. rhyw ddynion 1 Tim. v 24 ‘some men’; rhyw bethau 2 Petr. iii 16 ‘some things’; mywn rhyw bhanneu (bh ≡ v) J.D.R. [xvii] ‘in some places’.
iv. Subst. un, pl. rhai and adj. rhyw, preceded by pronouns, numerals or prefixes, form composite or compound pronominalia, thus:
(1) Pa un, pl. pa rai ‘which?’ § 163 ii (1); pa ryw un § 163 ii (6).
(2) pob un ‘every one’, pl. pob rhai.
A fob un o honunt w.m. 7 ‘and each one of them’. pop r͑ey o(’r) r͑eẏ henne a.l. i 8 ‘all of those’. Gofyn a oruc ẏ Chyarlys ansawẟ pob r͑ei o naẟunt c.m. 14 ‘he inquired of Charles the condition of all (i.e. each group) of them’.
(3) neb un or nebun subst. ‘some one, any one’, adj. ‘a certain’, pl. neb rhai, generally in positive sentences.
Subst. Nid mor ddihareb nebun § 151 ii (3); neb r͑ei o ovynnei [read ‑eu] bychein Ỻ.A. 2 “quasdam quaestiunculas”; nep r͑ei drwc do. 30 ‘certain bad ones’.—Adj. neb un vrenhindref yni Ỻ.A. 166 ‘a certain province of ours’; nebun genedɏl r.b.b. 280 ‘a certain tribe’; neb r͑ei r͑inweẟeu Ỻ.A. 102 ‘certain miracles’.
(4) rhyw un, rhýwun ‘some one’, pl. rhyw rai, rhýwrai, Ml. r͑yw rei.
rhyw un 1 Cor. xv 35 “τις”; O achaws mileindra r͑yw rei … kanys y mae r͑yw rei a’m llaẟei i s.g. 320 ‘On account of the brutality of some people; for there are some who would kill me’.
(5) dau ryw, tri rhyw, etc. ‘two (three, etc.) different, two (three, etc.) kinds of’.
Seithryw pechawt (read bechawt) marwawl ysyẟ Ỻ.A. 147 ‘there are seven different deadly sins’. Tri r͑yw gywyẟ yssyẟ … Deu ryw gywyẟ deu eir yssyẟ r.g. 1134 ‘there are three kinds of cywyddau, … there are two kinds of cywyddau deuair’.
(6) pa ryw § 163 ii (6).
(7) pob rhyw ‘every, all manner of’.
Pob r͑yw ẟa o’r a orchymynnei yr yscrythur lan Ỻ.A. 126 ‘Every good that holy scripture commanded’. a phob r͑yw vlas yssyẟ ar y
