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56 :Ancr wyf fi’n cyweirio i fedd,
 * Ond aroa mɥnd i orwedd.—D.G. 295.

‘I am an anchorite making ready his grave, only waiting to go to rest.’


 * Cans ar ddiwedd pob gweddi,
 * Cof cywir, yr henwir hi.—D.G. 235.

‘For at the end of every prayer, unforgotten she is named.’


 * Maẟeu, kanys ti yw’r meẟic.— 1298 (7 syll.).

‘Forgive, for Thou art the Healer.’ The length of the line shows that kanys is to be read kans. It occurs written cans in 487.


 * Ni edrychodd Duw ’r achwyn;
 * Ni mynnodd aur, namn i ddwyn.—G.Gl., 148/256.

‘God did not regard the lamentation; He desired not [to have] gold, but to take him away.’ See also I.G. 380.

The vowel of a proclitic is often elided

(1) After a final vowel, ỿ is elided in the article ỿr, § 114; the pronouns ỿn ‘our’, ỿch ‘your’ (now written ein, eich), § 160 ii (1); the oblique relative ỿ or ỿr, § 82 ii (1), § 162 ii (2); the preposition ỿn, § 210 iv.

(2) Before an initial vowel, ỿ is elided in fỿ ‘my’, dỿ ‘thy’, § 160 i (1).

(3) The relative a tends to disappear even between consonants, § 162 i.

(4) The vowel of pa or pỿ ‘what?’ sometimes disappears even before a consonant, as in p’le ‘where?’ § 163 ii (2).

(5) After pa, rɥw tends to become rỿ and r’, § 163 ii (6).

i. (1) Compound nouns and adjectives are accented regularly; thus gwī́n-llan ‘vineyard’, cadéir-fardd ‘chaired bard’, gwág-law or lláw-w̯ag ‘empty-handed’.


 * Gw̯áwd-lais mwyalch ar góed-lwyn,
 * Ac ëos ar lïos lwyn.—D.G. 503.

‘The musical voice of a thrush in a grove, and a nightingale in many a bush.’


 * Yn i dydd ni adai wan
 * Acw ’n llaw-w̯ag, Gwenllian.—L.G.C. 232.

‘In her day she, Gwenllian, left not the weak empty-handed there.’

(2) Even a compound of an adjective and a proper name may be so accented; as