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Rh rom, room, routes. laha, law, lakes. best, beast, bestes. silly, eel, sillyes. abostol, apostle, abesteledh. broder, brother; brederedh, brethren. el, angel, eledh. gwreg, wife, gwregedh.

A variant of this, written by Lhuyd az, yz, or oz, the vowel being obscure, is best represented in this spelling by as. It perhaps answers to the Welsh od, and iaid.

canker, crab, kencras. pesk, fish, pescas. beSj finger, besyas. bat, staff, battas. fow, den,fowas. cap, cap, cappas.

5. By the modification of the vowel.

tros, foot, treys, men, stone, meyn. broder, brother ; breder, brothers. davas, sheep, deves, but also devejyow. margh, horse, 'mergh. tol, hole, tel. ascorn, bone, escarn. sans, saint, sens, but also sansow. dans, tooth, dens, yar, hen,yer. mab, son, meb, but also mebyon. manek, glove, menik. gavar, goat, gever.

6. By dropping the syllable en or an from the singular; or rather in this case the singular is formed from a plural, usually more or less collective, by adding the individualising suffix an or en. The words to which this