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§ 111 229. The late spelling prydnawn is an artificial reconstruction; the spoken language preserves the traditional pronunciation prynháwn.
 * Ag un lliw, gannwyll awyr,
 * Y barnwn haul brynhawn hwyr.—I.D. 7.

‘And of the same colour I judged the late evening sun,—the candle of the sky.’ Cf.brynhawn/&#8203;bery’ n hir D.G. 73, Barn hen/&#8203;brynhawn do. 428.

A media was unvoiced after nasal + tenuis. The following cases occur: ŋk‑d > ŋkt or ŋt, as in ieuenctid ‘youth’ also written ieuengtid;—nt‑g > ŋk', as in difancoll D.G. 387 ‘perdition’ < *difant-goll; deincryd D.G. 385, 1157 ‘gnashing of teeth’ < *deint-gryd.

A media was generally unvoiced after a voiceless spirant; as glastwfɏr 146 for glasdwfr § 96 ii (5); neillparth do. 148 for neillbarth; dywespwyt do. 90 ; gwnaethpwyt do. 89; gwallco 37 for gwallgof; alltud for all-dud. On the other hand p and c are voiced, sometimes even in Ml. W., after s; thus while we have yskyn 11, kyscu do. 21, yspryt Ỻ.A. 99, we also find disgynnent 14, goresgyn do. 91, ysbryt Ỻ.A. 3, esgussawd 1a, pasgadur ib. Though the tenuis was commonly written up to the 18th cent., Dr. Davies’s orthography has generally prevailed since the appearance of his dictionary; in this the media is written except in the groups st, llt, cht, fft, thp.

An initial media is sometimes found written as a tenuis after a voiceless spirant: Canys collyg̃hy 78 changed to Kan nys gollynghy in  56; Bei ys cuypun  81 ‘If I knew’; os kovyn  ii 18 ‘if he asks it’; seith pechawt Ỻ.A. 143 for seith bechawt  36 ‘seven sins’; a’th caledrwydd  74 ‘and thy hardness.’

(1) ẟl > dl, as in bodlon ‘satisfied’ < *boẟ-lawn. The recent spelling boddlon is a reconstruction due to Pughe; the natural pronunciation is bodlon (S. W. bŏ́lon); cf. Fodlon im dan fedw̯lwyn ir D.G. 172 ‘contented with me under fresh birch-trees’; Bodloni bydol annyn Gr.O. 34 ‘to satisfy a worldly wretch’; hadl ‘lying in ruins’ for *haẟl < *sₑd-lo‑, √sed- ‘settle’ § 63 ii. Similarly ẟr > dr, as in cadr ‘puissant’ for *caẟr: Gaul. Belatu-cadrus ep. of Mars, O. Bret. cadr gl. decoreo, Bret. cazr, kaer ‘handsome’: Gk. κεκαδμένος, Skr. s̑ās̑ad- ‘distinguish oneself’. It took place after the loss of f; thus Hydref ‘October’ < hyẟfref (heẟvref i 24, calan hyddfref  i 346b ‘Oct. 1st’), dedryd ‘verdict’ < *deẟf-fryd.

On the other hand d ( < orig. t) is sometimes treated as ẟ before a sonant, and in S. W. dial, has remained ẟ or disappeared. Thus cenedl is kenetɏl in 10, 16, where t ≡ ẟ, but in O. W. is cenetl  2, where t ≡ d (S. W. dial. cenel); hoedl (with d < t, cf. Late Brit. Vennisetli, and see § 63 vii (5)) is treated as hoeẟl by Casnodyn, hoeẟɏl/&#8203;heẟwch  1248, cf. 1234, 1241, but G.M.D. has hyder/&#8203;hoedɏl do. 1320, cf. 1212; so I.G., Hudol/&#8203;hoedl 310. S. W. hw̯eẟel for chwedl cannot mean that the suff. was *‑dhlo‑, for ‑edl- would give