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§ 44 :Wedi ’mrawd yma’r ydwyf;
 * Ato, Dduw, ymbartói ’dd wyf.—L.Mor. (m. I.F.).

‘After my brother I tarry here; to him, Oh God, I am preparing [to go].’ (The metre proves the elision, but not its position.)

Occasionally in Mn. W. haplology takes place, that is, a consonant, if repeated in the following syllable, is lost with the unaccented vowel; as erledigaeth for erlidedigaeth ‘persecution’, crediniol for credaduniol, § 132 (8), ‘believing’. (Cf. Eng. singly for single-ly, Bister for Bicester, Lat. stipendium for stipipendium, etc.)

An unaccented initial vowel sometimes disappears, as in Late Ml. W. pinẏwn 1225 ‘opinion’, borrowed from Eng.; ’wyllys for ewyllys in verse; and in Late Mn. W. machlud ‘to set’ (of the sun) for Ml. and Early Mn. W. ym-achludd, D.G. 121, § 111 vii (3). As a rule, however, this elision only takes place after a vowel:


 * Tebig yw ’r galennig lân
 * I ’dafedd o wlad Ifan.—I.D., 142.

‘The fair new year’s gift is like threads from the land of [Prester] John.’ Another reading is I edafedd gwlad Ifan, I.D. 22.


 * Ac ef gyda’i ogyfoed
 * Yw gŵr y wraig oreu ’rioed.—L.G.C. 318.

‘And he with his mate is the husband of the best wife [that] ever [was].’

In a few disyllables the vowel of the final unaccented syllable is sometimes elided; thus ónid ‘but’ appears generally as ond in Mn. W. Other examples met with in Mn. (rarely in Late Ml.) verse are mɥnd for mỿ́ned ‘to go’, tɥrd for tỿ́red ‘come!’ gweld for gwéled ‘to see’, llond for llónaid ‘full (capacity)’, cans for cánys ‘because’, namn for námyn ‘but’, all except the last two in common use in the dialects. Similarly ér ỿs becomes ers, § 214 vii.