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GRAMMAR
- pehador or pehajor, a sinner, masc.; pehadores, a sinner, fem.
Except in the case of the other class of feminines, of which a list is given below, it may be taken as a general rule that the corresponding feminine of any noun denoting a masculine animate object is formed in this way.
2. By a different word. These are mostly those which denote relationships and familiar animals, and there are in some cases, as in English, further words to denote the young of both sexes, or the neuter.
- dên, man; benen, woman; flogh, child.
- gour, husband; gwreg, wife.
- mab, son; mergh, daughter.
- ewiter, uncle; modreb, aunt.
- tâs, father; mam, mother.
- sîra, father; dama, mother.
- sîra widn,[1] grandfather; dama widn, grandmother.
- altrou, godfather; altrezuan, godmother.
- broder, brother; hoer, sister.
- noy, nephew; noys, niece.
- tarow bull; bewgh, cow; ŏjion, ox; lewgh, calf; lodn, bullock; lejek, heifer.
- hordh or hûr, ram; davas, sheep; mowls, wether; ôn, lamb.
- margh, horse; caseg, mare; ebal, colt.
- bŏk, he-goat; gavar, goat; min, kid.
- baedh, boar; banew, sow; porhal, little pig; gwîs, old sow; ragomogh, hog; mohen, pig (plur. mogh); torgh, hog.
- kŷ dog; gêst, bitch.
- gourgath, tom-cat; cath, cat.
- carow, stag; ewik, hind; lewgh-ewik, fawn.
- ↑ Note how a masculine ending in a affects the initial of the adjective as if it were a feminine.
