‘Greek’, and in verbal forms such as aed ‘let him go’, rhoed ‘let him give’, rhoes ‘he gave’; see § 185.
In r.p. 1189 Gro-ec is a disyllable rhyming with chwec, ostec, Cym|ra|ec, tec; in the r.g. 1119 it is stated to be a monosyllable; D.G. uses it as a monosyllable, 53, as well as rhoes 6 ‘gave’, troes 68 ‘turned’, gwnaed 149 ‘let her do’, doed 145, 228 ‘let him come’, ffoes 191 ‘fled’, but ffó|es 61. He uses Cym|rá|eg as a trisyllable rhyming with teg, 2, 179; so G.Gr., d.g. 243. This form persisted in the 15th cent.; as
- Cymro da i Gym|rā́|eg,
- Cymered air Cymru deg.—G.Gl., m 146/281.
‘A Welshman of good Welsh, let him take the praise of fair Wales.’
In the 15th cent., however, we meet with the contracted form; see T.A. g. 251. Later, this was usual:
- Da i̯ Gym|rā́eg, di-gymar ṓedd,
- Di-dláwd ym mhob dadl ỿ́doedd.—W.Ỻ. 120 (m.S.B.).
‘Good [in] his Welsh, incomparable was he, resourceful in all debate.’
(2) The contraction of the accented penult with the ultima results in an accented ultima § 41 iii. But in newly-formed compounds, contracted forms such as maes, troed are treated like other monosyllables, and the accent falls on the penult; thus glỿ́n-faes D.G. 135 ‘vale’, méin-droed do. 262 ‘slender foot’, déu-droed ‘two feet’.
ii. The r.g., 1119, states that ey is always a disyllable. This is not necessarily the case in the penult, for in such forms as keɥrɥẟ, § 122 ii (3), pl. of kaer ‘fort’, treɥthɥch r.p. 1153 from traethaf ‘I treat’, etc., it is an old affection of ae. In other cases, however, the diphthong is late, and the disyllabic form is used in poetry down to the 16th cent. Thus:
- Lloer yvi a dawn llawer dŷn,
- Lleuad rhïanedd Llë|ɥn.—G.Gl., m 148/191.
‘She is the moon and the grace of many women, the moon of the ladies of Lleyn.’ See also I.G. 388, 405.
- Salbri ieuanc sêl brë|ɥr
- Sydd i gael swyddau a gw̯ŷr.—Gu.O. a 14967/94.
‘Young Salesbury of the stamp of a chieftain [is he] who is to have offices and men.’
- Nid âi na chawr na dyn chw̯ɥrn,
- Heb haint Dmv, a’n pen të|ɥrn.—T.A. c. ii 81.
‘Neither a giant nor a violent man, without the scourge of God, could take our liege lord.’ See g. 176, f. 14, 33. See hë|ɥrn / të|ɥrn / kedɥrn r.p. 1226.
