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§ 203
Verbs
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B.T. 27, usually cysgu 'to sleep'; cadvid ( = cadwyd) B.B. 62, cadwydvf. loa, usually cadw 'to keep'; ymchwelut W.M. 10, 14, s.G. 23 Ho turn', ymchoelut C.M. 5. There is some confusion, even in Ml. W., of this suff. and -yt ; thus the last word is written ymchoelyt in R.M. 7. In Mn. W. dywediit is spelt dywedyd ; but (T.J. wrote dywedud Hyff. Gynnwys, p. iv.

(5) -yd> Ml. -yt, in kymryt, diffryt 195 ii ; etvry't C.M. 24 ' to restore ', edryt R.B.B. 6 (by 110 iii (3)), Mn. W. edfryd D.P.O. 132, mostly replaced by adfer in the late period, vb. adferaf; ymoglyt W.M. 104 'to beware ', re-formed as ymogelyd in Mn. W. ; yochlyt IL.A. 26, beside gochel ib., R.B.B. 106 ' to avoid ', Mn. W. gochel, vb. gochelaf; diengyt IL.A, 72 (Gwyn. dial, dewnid) beside diang ib., Mn. W. dianc ' to escape '.

(6) -d, Ml. -t, in Ml. W. dilit W.M. 41, R.M. 28 ' to stick to, follow' (also written dilyt W.M. 41, 77 iii, and later assumed to have -y-^ but this is an error, the older rhymes having -i-, as Hid M.A. i 408), verb dilynaf ' I follow ', whence in Mn. W. the v.n. dilyn, also dilin D.G. 343 ; Ml. W. erlit w.M. 16, Mn. W. erlid ' to chase, persecute', vb. ertynaf; in Mn. W. a new vb. erlidiqf is formed from the v.n., and a new v.n. erlyn from the vb. ; ymlit W.M. 14 ' to chase ' from which a denom. was already formed in Ml. W., e.g. R.M. 64 ; bod ' to be ' 189 iv (6).

(7) -s, for 8 in the stem, in go(r]biwes t vb. go(r)Uwebaf 194 vi, Mn. W. v.n. goddiwes, late goddiweddyd ; aros, verb arAoqffor *arhobaf 187.

A megys nat ymoBiweS un creadur a Duw, ac ef yn y moSiwes a phob peth . . . IL.A. 10 ' And as no creature apprehends God, and He apprehending everything . . .'

(8) Verbal nouns were formed in Ar. by means of suffixes *-tu- (: Lat. supine -tu-), and *-ti-\ Kelt, had also f. *-ta, 189 iv (6). The preceding vowel is generally, but not always, R-grade. adeilad 1 to build ' = adeilad f. ' a building ' <*ati-eglatd < *-9-td. eit may be from a dsA,.*-ati < *-s-tiai. et < *-i-ta ; as yfed ' to drink ' < *pibi- ta, Vpoi-', also from *-e-to-, *-e-ta, cf. 143 iii (12). The y of -yt comes from the i of*re, *li representing Ar. *r, *l; thus corresponding to cymeraf ' I take ' < *kom-b}ier- with F-gi ade *bher-. the v.n. had R-grade *bhr-, as *kom-bhr-tu- > W. cymryd; so goglyt<*uo-ty-tu-, Vkel- 'hide . The -y- tended to spread from these. The v.n. dilit is a similar formation, < *de-ll-tu-, where *-ll- is R 2 -grade of Vleia x -' to stick'; the vb. dilynaf < *de-lind-mi, with w-infix 201 i (4). The verb

*lynaf ( : Ir. lenim) disappeared in W., and its compounds, as erlyn