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ACCIDENCE
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e-bo dadeleu A.L. i 62 ' where there is a suit ' ; A'r vorwyn a boei/t yn yb oeb Peredur W.M. 1 48 f and the maid came to where P. was '. Also, similarly used, myn, men, as myn-yd vo truin yd nit trev ( = vyb trew) B.B. 83 ' where there is a nose there will be a sneeze'; cf. 26; a bode* vy ren men y maent ryb R.P. 1367 1 which my Lord has put where they are free ' ; cf. 1 244.

The older forms of yno, yna are ynoeth, ynaeth ; the B.T. ynoeb represents the intermediate stage between ynoeth and yno 78 i (i). ynaeth>yna has followed the analogy of ynoeth; Powys dial, ene shows the change of ae to e 31. ynoeth and ynaeth imply Brit. *enokt-, *enakt-, the latter doubtless for *enakt- 74 iv. These are prob. derivatives of the pron. stem. *eno- ; but the formation is not quite clear. We may assume forms *eno-ko-8, *end-ko-s formed like *pro-ko-s, *pera-ko-8, and adverbs with a ^-suffix formed from these, on the analogy of *ek-tos ( : Ir. acht, Gk. CKTOS) ; thus *eno-k-te ' thither ' > ynoeth. For the base cf. Skr. ana ' then ; ever ', Gk. Ivr; ' the third [day] ' (' that [day] '), Umbr. inum-k, inum-ek, enom ' turn '. Ml. W. yn ' there ; thither ' may represent the loc. and ace. *eni and *enom of the pron. Ml. W. myn, men seems to be the same with initial (y)m- < *esmi, see(n). The rhyme ren/ 'men shows that the -n is single, and that the vowel was long ; hence the word cannot be an oblique case of mann ' place ', though so treated later, and written man.

(7) eto 'again, yet', Ml. W. etwo, etwa, earlier edwaeth C. R.P. 1173, etwaeth B.T. 29, M. w. 30, eddwaeth (dd = d-d, not 5*) B.B. 88. Also etton B.P. 1264, 1309, etonn do. 1321, etwan K..A. 37, W.M. 6 1.

The t is for d by provection before w 111 v (2), so that the older form was edwaeth, *edwoeth (wa : wo interchange), which implies Brit. *et..uokl-. This seems to be a formation like yno, see (6), from a base *eti-uo ; *eti : Gk. In, Skr. dti (which may represent *ati or *eti) ' over, beyond ' ; uo < *upo : Skr. upa, as adv. ' moreover, further ', see (9). The form eton, etwan < *edwon < Brit. *eti-uo-nd, an adverb formed with an n-suffix, see i (3). For loss of w before o see 36 iii. The existence of *eti as well as *ati in Kelt, is shown by Gaul, eti-c ' and '. It does not seem possible to explain the e- of eto except as original *-.

(8) hefyd c also, besides ', Ml. W. hevyt. In Late Mn. W. it is used in positive statements only; but in Ml. and Early Mn. W. its use is not so restricted ; see e. g. W.M. 8.

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  1. Cf. ryddnant 68 for ryd\nant ; the d doubled because the syll. is closed; see 54 i (3).