M.K. [vii] ' the Welsh language in general ' ; Ba herwydd na bat hiraeth T.A. 'why should there not be longing 1 ?' O.W. heruid duiutit Juv. ' according to divinity ' ; hihi erguid ox. ' in general ' (?).
hemvyS : Corn, herwydh ; Bret, hervez ; the h- though appearing in all (as opposed to W. and Corn, erbyri) can only be explained as accentual, cf. henw, Bret, hano, Corn, hanovj ; the rest seems to be <*ari-uid- ' *appearance, manner', Vueid- 'see'; erwy8 also occurs without h- in O. and Ml. W. ; and gervyS is a variant due to another treatment of e-, see 112 ii (2).
(6) hyd [soft] 'the length of, 148 i (8), in two senses, (a) 'as far as', (b) 'along'; compos, ar hyd [rad.] 'along', ar dy hyd ' along thee ', also ' at thy full length ' (on the ground).
o lost irinis hit bronn ir alt L.L. 73 ' from Llost yr Ynys as far as the breast of the Allt ' ; o hynny hyt trannoeth W.M. 6 ' from that [time] till the morrow ' ; hyt yr amser do. 1 9 ' till the time ' ; often followed by yn 216 ii (i); ar hit taf L.L. 258 'along the Taff' ; ar-i-hit do. 159, ar-y-hit do. 143 'along it', n-i-hit do. 43, 78, etc., yn-y-hit do. 146 'along it'.
In the dialects hyd developed an inflected 3rd sg. hqd8o, hydSi (the y, instead of y, shows it to be late) ; this is sometimes met with in Late Mn. W. : ar hyd-ddi Gen. xxviii 1 2.
O.W. bikit CP V ticket ib., bekeit ox., bekit L.L. 73, behet do. 73, 122, bet Juv., L.L. freq., e.g. 146 (7 times), 155 (n times) 'as far as' ; cekit L.L. 73 'along', cikitan do. 122 bis 'along', cihitun ox. 'along' ; Ml. W. vet (misprinted ver) K.M. 144 (see W.M. 201) ' as far as ' ; Gwentian ved H.G. 23, 52 ' till '.
bi- < Ar. *bhi (: *obhi) ' on (to) ' : Goth, bi, Skr. abhi (Lat. ob may be from *obhi or *opi) ; -het may represent ace. *-sitm ; the unique form -heit may be due to Imihatn which follows it; bet is generally regarded as a contraction of behet, but such a contraction is doubtful so early ; cf. also Bret, bet, bete, beteg ; can it be an adv. direct from bi- ? cehit = eqtv. cyhyd 148 i (8) ; cihitan an adv. like guotan etc., from *ko-si-tan- ; -'un error for -an?
(7) llwrw ' in the track or direction of, after, with, as re- gards ' ; compos, yn llwrw id., ar llwrw id., adv. ' forward ' ; S.W. dial. Iwrw i ben ' head foremost ' ; also Ml. W. llwry.
llwrw essiwet ket B.P. 1351 'after dearth of largess', llwrw alaeth . . . digrawn . . . deigyr do. 1 206 ' with grief the tear flows ' ; yn llwrw llwyth elvyt dovyt a'n dyd yn llawr P.M. M.A. i 306 ' following
earth's tribe the Lord will place us in the ground'; dos heb
