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50 occasionally with different meanings, as ýmladd ‘to fight’, ymlā́dd ‘to tire one’s self’; ýmddwyn ‘to behave’, ymddŵyn ‘to bear’.


 * Y dydd a’r awr, ni’m dawr, dod;
 * ýmwel â mi dan ámod.—G.I.H., 91.

‘Fix the day and hour, I care not [when]; visit me under [that] condition.’


 * Arthur o’i ddolur oedd wan,
 * Ac o ýmladd cad Gámlan.—L.G.C. 450.

‘Arthur was weak from his wound, and from fighting the battle of Camlan.’ See also T.A., ii 78.


 * Y ferch wéddw̯ ddifrychéuddeddf
 * Wedi’r ymlā́dd a’r drem léddf.—D.E., 112/840.

‘The widowed woman of spotless life after the prostration and disconsolate aspect.’

ii. The reduplicated pronouns mỿfī́, tydī́, etc. Rarely these are accented regularly; see § 159 ii (2).

(1) Words in which the last syllable has a late contraction, § 33, such as pa|ra|tói for Ml. W. pa|ra|tṓ|i ‘to prepare’, cy|tū́n for Ml. W. cy|tū́|un ‘united’, Gwr|théɥrn for Gwr|thḗ|ɥrn, Cỿm|rā́eg for Cỿm|rā́|eg, pa|rhā́d for pa|rhā́|ad ‘continuance’. It is seen that in these words the accent in Ml. W. was regular, and kept its position after the ultima was merged in the penult.

In the word ysgolhái̯g, Ml. W. yscolheic ‘scholar’, the contraction in the last syllable seems to have taken place early in the Ml. period, as Nid vid iscolheic nid vid eleic unben 91 (10 syll.; read scol|heic, § 23 ii), but it was necessarily subsequent to the fixing of the present accentuation; in  81 the uncontracted form occurs, rh. with guledic. A similar form is pen-áig ‘chief’. The word ffelaig seems to have been accented regularly; thus in 1221 we have ffeleic/ffilij, the latter being the Lat. filii.


 * Tudur waed Tewdwr ydoedd,
 * A phenáig cyff Ieuan oedd.—Gu.O., 196.

‘He was Tudor of the blood of Tudor, and chief of the stock of Ieuan.’

iv. A few words recently borrowed from English; as apêl, ‘appeal’.