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Double plurals are of common occurrence, and are formed in the following ways:

A second pl. ending is added to the first: celain ‘corpse’, pl. celanedd, double pl. celaneddau Ps. cx 6; deigr ‘tear’, pl. dagrau, double pl. dagreuoeẟ Ỻ.A. 71, 146, 149; so blodeu ‘flowers’, double pl. blodeuoeẟ  40, sg. blodeuyn; dieu ‘days’, double pl. dieuoeẟ do. 9, 25, sg. dyẟ; llysseu ‘plants’, double pl. llysseuoeẟ Ỻ.A. 70; dynion, double pl. dynẏoneu 1303; neges ‘errand’, pl. negesau, double pl. negeseuau  ii 97; peth ‘thing’, pl. pethau, double pl. petheuau do. 112, 119 ‘various things’; esgid ‘shoe’, esgidiau ‘shoes’, esgideuau ‘pairs of shoes’; mach ‘surety’, pl. meichi̯au, double pl. meichiafon.

. A pl. ending is added to a pl. formed by affection: thus cloch ‘bell’, pl. clych 380, double pl. clychau; sant ‘saint’, pl. seint  85, Ỻ.A. 69, double pl. seinnẏeu  ii 227, Mn. W. seintiau; angel ‘angel’, pl. engyl i 282, double pl. engylẏon Ỻ.A. 155,  118,  70 etc., Mn. W. angỿli̯on (e- > a- § 83 iii Note 2).

The diminutive pl. endings ‑ach (‑i̯ach) and ‑os are added to pl. nouns, as cryddionach Gr.O. 208, dynionach do. 93, J.D.R. [xx]; dreiniach ‘thorns’; plantos, gwragedhos, dilhados (dh ≡ ẟ, lh ≡ ll) J.D.R. [xv] ‘children, women, clothes’; cỿnos ‘little dogs’; more rarely to sg. nouns: branos 154, L.G.C. 148, ‘little crows’, caregos ‘pebbles’, dernynnach ‘bits’.