Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ thesaurus: being a British, or Welsh-English dictionary. [2 issues].1815 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
aeth ancients Arab arall Arglwydd awdl brenhin bydd cadw called Chald chwi corn Cywydd Dafydd Dduw dros drwg Dwyn dydd Englyn fraich fydd gair Galf Gnawd Goreu Gwae Gwalch Gwawl Gwell gŵr gwraig gwyr gyhydedd hath hên Hence herb Hist hyd y hynny iddo idem IMPERATIVE MOOD Iolo Kilydd land llaw Llwyd Llysiau'r mâb maen mawr Medd megys mewn môr oedd one's pawb Plur prep pron proper name pwyll radical Initial rhag rhai Rhys saith Dav signifies sing SUBJUNCTIVE MOODS Substantive sydd Tense thing troed Verbs Vowels wedi Welsh whence wnaeth word Wott wrth wydd yw'r
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Page xiv - O king, by your present and other future attempts, as well as formerly it hath often been ; but we assure ourselves, that it will never be wholly ruined by the anger or power of any mortal man, unless the anger of heaven concur to its destruction. Nor (whatever changes may happen as to the other parts of the world) can I believe, that any other nation or language besides the Welsh, shall answer at the great day before the supreme JUDGE, for the greater part of this corner of the world.
Page 5 - Ll, is L aspirated, and has a Sound peculiar to the Welsh. It is pronounced, by fixing the tip of the tongue to the roof of the mouth, and breathing forcibly through the jaw teeth, on both sides, but more on the right ; as if written in English, Llh.
Page 19 - Avon, or Afon, or Ammon, (a Brit, appellative for River) becomes the River Avon, a proper name: on which word Mr. Richards speaks thus : " Avon is the proper name of many rivers " in England ; — for which this reason is to be assigned, viz ' " that the English, when they drove the Britons out of that " part of Great Britain, called from them England, took " the appellatives of the old inhabitants for proper names ; " and so, by mistaking Avon, which with us only signifies a " river in general,...
Page ix - ... its speakers have not been conquered, cannot have changed. Thus it is possible for Pezron to speak of the Bretons as inheritors of the Gaulish language: I shall conclude with one Thing, that Men ought not to be ignorant of, and that is, That the Language of the Titans, which was that of the Ancient Gauls, is, after a Revolution of above Four Thousand Years, preserved even to our Time: A strange Thing, that so ancient a Language should now be spoken by the Armorican Britons in France, and by the...
Page 20 - Pa? what? what thing? and sometimes, what person ? They are of all genders and numbers.
Page 84 - Counsel, or Counsellor, a person retained by a client to plead his cause in a court of judicature ; a barrister ; an advocate.
Page 6 - 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 5 - LI, is /, aspirated, and has a Sound peculiar to the Welsh. It is pronounced by fixing the Tip of the Tongue to the Roof of the Month, and breathing forcibly through the Jaw-teeth on both Sides, but more on the Right; as if written in English, Llh, il, as-V EnglUh, N, as j\~ English.
Page 14 - The appellatives of birds, beasts, and fishes, are in their natures of the epicene gender; that is, some masculines, others feminines. Yet under the same gender are both sexes comprehended; and are distinguished only by adding...
Page 12 - W, in Monosyllables, as also in the Ultima of Polysyllables, is changed into y, with the Addition of au, or od, and of ion, in Adjectives ; as Bwrdd, pi. byrddau ; crwth, crythau ; trwch, trychau ; bwch, bychod : hwch, hychod; cwch, cychod ; hwrdd, hyrddod : So twll, mwdwl, meddwl," gwddf, pwll, dwrti, swrn, pilwrn, rfliswrn : Arddwrn, arddyrnau; migwrn, migyrnau, whose Plurals end all in au.