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§ 48 The ordinary accentuation is also met with in the bards:


 * O lẃyn i lẃyn, ail Énid.—D.G. 84.

‘From bush to bush, [maiden] second to Enid.’

When pa or pỿ is followed by a preposition governing it, the latter only is accented: pa-hám (for pa am, § 112 i (2)) ‘what for? why?’ often contracted into pam by the loss of the unaccented syllable, § 44 vii. So were doubtless accented the Ml. W. pahár i 108, 134, pa hár do. 118 (for pa ar) ‘what on?’ pa rác 50, pyrác  126 ‘what for?’

i. When the syllable bearing the principal accent begins with a vowel, a nasal, or r, it is aspirated under certain conditions, § 112 i (4); thus ce|nhéd|loedd ‘nations’, from cenedl; bo|nhé|ddig (vonheẟic 1331) from bonedd ‘gentry’, § 104 iv (1); cy|nháli̯wyd, from cynnal ‘to support’ from cyn + dal (d normally becomes n, not nh, § 106 ii); di|háng|ol from di-anc ‘to escape’; a phlannhédeu  1303 ‘and planets’, usually planedau; kenhadeu  184, oftener in Ml. W. kennadeu do. 42 ‘messengers’.


 * A’i aur a’i fedd y gŵyr fo,
 * Fonhéddig, fy ny h uddo.—L.G.C. 188.

‘With his gold and mead doth he use, as a gentleman, to comfort me.’

On the other hand, an h required by the derivation is regularly dropped after the accent; as cýnnes ‘warm’, for cýn-nhes from cyn + tes (t gives nh, § 106 iii (1)); bré|nin ‘king’, for brḗn|nhin from bre|en|nhin from *breentin, Cornish brentyn; tán|nau ‘strings’, for tán|nheu from O. W. tantou ; ḗang ‘wide’, for éh-ang from *eks-ang&#8209;; ánawdd Ỻ.. 109 for án-hawdd ‘difficult’; áraul ‘bright’, for ár-haul, which appears as arheul in 1168. The h is, however, retained between vowels in a few words, as ḗhud ‘foolish’, dḗhau and dḗau ‘right (hand), south’; and in nrh, nhr, nghr, and lrh, as ánrhaith ‘spoil’, ánhrefn ‘disorder’, ánghred ‘infidelity’, ólrhain ‘to trace’.

The h is also dropped after a secondary accent, as in