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§ 124 Some generic names of animals; as anifelleit Ỻ.A. 165,  238, now anifeiliaid, sg. anifail ‘animal’; mileit 129, Mn. W. milod, sg. mil ‘animal’; so bwystvileit 40 now bwystfilod, sg. bwystfil; ysgrubliaid Gen. xlv 17 ‘beasts’. Also a few specific names, as cameleit Ỻ.A. 165, Mn. W. camelod; Mn. W. bleiddiaid Matt. vii 15 ‘wolves’, also bleiddiau T.A. . 233, Ml. bleẏẟẏeu ii 230; gwenoliaid D.G. 20, sg. gwennol ‘swallow’.

‑ant < Brit. *‑antes, m. f. pl. participial ending occurs in carant 14,  46, Ỻ.A. 153,  130, sg. câr ‘kinsman’ < *karants (Ir. care < *karants) < *k̑ₑr‑: Armen. ser ‘progeny, family’, E. her‑d, Lat. crēsco, √k̑er- ‘grow’. In Early Ml. W. carant was already affected into kereint C. i 244, Mn. W. ceraint, later also cerynt M.K. [71] ‘kinsmen’ ( ‘lovers’). On the analogy of this was formed the pl. of Ml. W. nei (now nai) ‘nephew’: neẏeẏnt i 8, nẏeint  89, Ỻ.A. 121, Mn.W. neiaint; and of ceifn ‘3rd cousin’: keywneynt (≡ keivneint)  76 defined ib. as ‘children of the 4th mother’ (those of the 2nd being ‘cousins’, etc.). Ml. W. meddweint Ỻ.A. 55 ‘drunkards’ may be an old participial form. A few other nouns have ‑eint, Mn. W. ‑aint affected for an earlier *‑ann, § 121 iv.

i. ‑er < Brit. *‑eres occurs in broder 38,  26, later affected to brodyr  140; broder survived, as in T.A. . 229, Wm.S. e.g. Act. xv 23, but was at length ousted by brodyr, cf. § 122 iv (3). In Ml. W. brodorion also is used, 203, 207. Sg. brawd ‘brother’, § 59 ii, § 63 iii.

-yr was added (instead of the old ‑awr) to gwayw ‘spear’ (also in Mn. W. ‘pain’), giving gw̯aew̯yr 48, but more usually gwewyr  1074 (for *gw̯eyw̯yr).
 * Ofera’ gwaith fu i’r gwŷr
 * Eliaw ôl i wewyr.—D.N., 99/598.

‘It was the vainest task for men to anoint the marks of his spears.’

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