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58 noun forms a loose compound, as cỿ́nffon lónni ‘to wag the tail’, prýsur rédant ‘they swiftly run’.


 * Fel y niwl o afael nant
 * Y díson ymadáwsant.—R.G.D. 149.

‘Like the mist from the grasp of the valley have they silently passed away.’

(1) Prefixes form strict compounds with nouns, adjectives, and verbs; as áthrist ‘very sad’ (trist ‘sad’), ám-gylch ‘circumference’, cýn-nal ‘to hold’, etc., etc.

But compounds with the prefixes an&#8209;, di&#8209;, cyd&#8209;, go&#8209;, gor&#8209;, gwrth&#8209;, rhy&#8209;, tra- may be either strict or loose; as án-awdd or án háwdd ‘difficult’, § 148 i (6); án-aml/ýnys 103, án áml, § 164 i (1); dí-wair, dí wáir ‘chaste’; rhý-wyr ‘high time’ and rhɥ̄́ hw̄́yr ‘too late’; trá-mawr Gr.O. 51, trā́ máwr ‘very great’; trá-doeth do. 52, trā́ dṓeth ‘very wise’.


 * Dí-dad, amddifad ýdwyf,
 * A dī́ fráwd wedi i farw̯ ẃyf.—L.Mor. (m. I.F.).

‘Fatherless, destitute, am I, and without a brother after his death.’


 * Y mae’r ddẃyais mor ddíw̯air.—D.G. 148.

‘The bosom is so chaste.’


 * Fwyn a dī́ wáir—f’enaid yw.—D.G. 321.

‘Gentle and chaste—she is my soul.’ Cf. D.G. 306.


 * Trā́ dā́ im y trȳ́ déu-air.—I.F., 18/11.

‘Very good for me will two words turn out.’

i. Expressions consisting of two words in syntactical relation, such as a noun and a qualifying adjective or a noun and a dependent genitive, are in some cases accented as single words. ☞ These may be called  compounds. Mutable vowels are mutated (ɥ > ỿ, etc.) as in single words.

They differ from proper compounds in two respects: (1) the initial of the second element is not softened except where the ordinary rules