An English and Welch vocabulary: or, An easy guide to the antient British language. To which is prefixed, a grammar of the Welch language, by T. Richards

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W. Williams, 1804 - 189 pages
 

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Page 8 - Wales ; as ci mham, her mother ; ei nhai, her nephew. This variation of the initial letters is always regular, and constantly betwixt letters of the same organ of pronunciation ; for a labial letter is never changed to a dental, nor a dental, to a labial, &c. • Adverbs, being formed of adjectives, become...
Page 7 - Such words as begin with mutable consonants, viz. b. c, d, g, 11, m,p, r, and t, in their primary use, change these their radical initial letters, as occasion shall require, and according to the efjedl, VvViiili the Words' preceding have on them, as follows.
Page 22 - ... caseg, y gaseg ; such words are infallibly of the feminine gender ; but if the initial consonant change not thereupon, we may justly conclude such words to be of the masculine gender; as, brethyn, y brethyn; march, y march.
Page 23 - Consonants (if mumble) into their soft ; and changing their Vowels too. Of Feminines, which change the Vowels of the...
Page 7 - Penultima, &,c. and its ordinary Sound in the Ultima, are both exemplified in the single Word, Sundry.
Page 82 - Uoth substantives being common, and not pertaining either to manufacture or material whereof a thing is done, or to be done, the latter is immediately subjoined to the former, without any change of its initial : as, 1cariad •mam; 'liaeiioni "tad; 1gweinidog "Duw; 'pen 2bryn.
Page 9 - ... &c. And all, of taking the aspirate h before them after the pronoun sing. Ei, when of the feminine gender ; and the pi. pronouns eu their ; and ein, our ; and the affix...
Page 91 - If the verb begin the sentence, and its nominative case come after it, then...
Page 45 - IMPERSONALS are such as have no persons, except the third person singular only : as, keearagh, to grow night ; cheeree eh, it grew night ; keeree eh, it will grow night.
Page 6 - ... such british words as have the radical P changed into the aspirate Ph, as tri-phen, three heads from Pen, a head ; or when the Greek Phi, or Hebrew Af, are to be expressed, as Philosophydd, Philemon, Ephesiaid...

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