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 Thomas Richards

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W. Williams, 1804 - 189 pages
 

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Page 1 - Antepennltima, 8tc. as U In the English, Turn, Hunt, Further, Sturdy; or as i, in Bird, Third : In the Ultima or Monosyllables, as i in the English, Tin, Thin, Skin, Trim, (except these Monosyllables, Y, ydd, ym, yn, yr, ys, fy, dy, myn ; which sound Y, as in the Penultima); and if circumflexed, as ee, in the Engi.
Page 5 - Singulars in three Manner of Ways. First, By adding only a Letter or Syllable to the Termination of the Singular. Secondly, By changing only the Vowels or Diphthongs of Monosyllables into other Vowels or .Diphthongs of both the Ultima and Pen ultima of Polysyllables, into other Vowels or .Diphthongs.
Page 88 - PreterperfectTense, and the Emphasis be in the Verb, the Answer is made, if Affirmative, by do ; if .Negative, by Na ddo...
Page 2 - 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 such...
Page 17 - II. By either changing the Singular Vowel, with an addition; or by adding another Vowel to the ultimate Vowel of the Singular, and without an addition. Of...
Page 1 - OF INITIAL LETTERS IN WELSH. 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 76 - 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 86 - Na chynnyg wneuthur cam a neb. But if some other word or words come between the Infinitive Mood and the...
Page 18 - Cardinals have no plural, when put in apposition or in composition with their substantives, though their substantives, at the same time, may be either singulars or plurals; as, tri gwr, tri wyr.

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