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§ 43 monosyllables than if they were marf, delf, or enf, garf. In standard cynghanedd, marw̯ rhymes with garw̯, tarw̯ only, and delw̯ with elw̯, gwelw̯ only; see below. The disyllabic pronunciation may be traced as far back as the 15th cent. In a couplet attributed to D.G. (see 322) bw rhymes with galw, a rhyme condemned by S.V. because galw̯ is a monosyllable whose vowel is a, P.Ỻ. xcii.

Some old rhymes are syberw̯/hirerw̯/derw̯/chw̯erw̯, 69; agerw̯/chw̯erw̯/syberw̯/gochw̯erw̯,  19; helw̯/delw̯, ib.; dyveinw̯/dyleinw̯,  21; divanw̯/llanw̯,  i 475; ymordlw̯/salw̯, do. 466; cadw̯/achadw̯/bradw̯, I.G. 422; enw̯/senw̯, do. 407; geirw̯/teirw̯, D.G. 500; syberw̯/ferw̯, E.P. 203.

2. In hwnnw, acw (earlier raccw) the w was vocalic; also probably in other forms in which it is a reduction of &#8209;w͡y, see § 78 i (2).

i. No Welsh word or word fully naturalized in Welsh is accented on the ante-penult. Such forms as Sáesoneg, Sáesones are misspellings of Sáesneg, Sáesnes.