ii. (1) The first alternative may be a noun or personal or demonstrative pronoun, as ti ac arall ‘thou and another’ (i.e. such as thou), hyn a’r llall ‘this and that’.
- Câr yn cyhuddo arall!
- Hawdd i’r llaw gyhuddo’r llall.—T.A., c. ii 78.
‘A kinsman accusing another!’ [It is] easy for the hand to accuse the other.’—kanys yr hynn a vynnei hwnn nys mynnei y llall s.g. 49 ‘for that which this [one] desired the other desired not’. In these cases the second term subst. pl. may be (y) rhai eraill ‘(the) others’: mwy … oeẟ honno no’r rei ereill oll w.m. 180 ‘that [ship] was larger than all the others’; llog̃ a oeẟ vwy noc un o’r rei ereill do. 185; cf. Ỻ.A. 102.
(2) The first alternative may be implied, as in other languages; as y dydd arall M.Ỻ. i 178 ‘the other day’; y nos arall r.p. 1362, D.G. 25 ‘the other night’; Gad i eraill gadw arian T.A. f. 6 ‘let others hoard money’.
iii. All the forms of the first term except y naill subst. may be used without a sequel as ordinary pronominalia meaning ‘one, some’; thus
(1) Adj. y naill ‘one’ in y naill hanner ‘one half’ (now generally ‘about a half’), y naill du or y neilltu ‘one side’ (hence neilltuo ‘to retire’ etc.); neill-law see example.
Eisteẟ a oruc Peredur ar neill law yr amherodres w.m. 164 (neill-law r.m. 231) ‘Peredur sat beside the empress’, lit. ‘on one side of the e.’ ond pan êl o’r neilltu Diar. xx 14; see Gen. xxx 40; Barn. vii 5; 2 Sam. iii 27; etc.
(2) Subst. un ‘one’, pl. rhai, Ml. r͑ei ‘some’; often with qualifying adjectives un da ‘a good one’, rhai drwg ‘bad ones’. Also yr un ‘the one’, pl. y rhai, Ml. y r͑ei ‘the ones’; these are chiefly used with adjectives as yr un drwg ‘the evil one’, or with a relative clause § 164 iv (1); and yr un instead of the indef. un in negative sentences, as—
Pa obeith yssyẟ ẏ’r gler? Nyt oes yr un Ỻ.A. 40 ‘What hope is there for the bards? There is none.’ Cf. s.g. 17, l. 10.
Adj. yr un [m. rad., f. soft] ‘the same’, followed, if necessary, by ac (ag), a ‘as’. Also un [soft], forming compounds strict or loose with nouns; the compound is an adj. meaning ‘of the same…’, § 149 ii (3).
