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§ 143 For W. awdr ‘author’ < Lat. au(c)tor (beside awdur < acc. au(c)tōrem) the dial, form awdwr (with parasitic w § 16 v (3)) came to be used in Late W. The above words were then mistaken for compounds of this, and wrongly spelt and accented ymheráwdwr, creáwdwr. Lastly the ‑wr was mistaken for ‑wr ‘man’, (8) below, and a new pl. ymherawdwyr formed instead of the true pl. ym(h)erodron; but ym(h)erodraeth remains.

‑es < Brit. *‑issā: Lat. ‑issa: brenhines etc. § 137 i.

‑i̯ad: hebryngẏat 4 ‘guide’; it affects a to ei: lleiddi̯ad ‘killer’ (lladd ‘kill’), datgeini̯ad ‘singer’; after w̯ the i̯ is lost § 36 v, as geilwad ‘caller’ (galw ‘call’), ceidwad ‘keeper, saviour’ (cadw ‘keep’). It implies Brit. ‑i̯atis (or i̯atā): Gaul. 🇬🇷 Ir. ‑ith, i-stem; the suffix is ‑ti- (or ‑tā): Gk. 🇬🇷; ‑i̯a- or ‑a- < ‑i̯ə- or ‑ə‑; the affection of the vowel shows that the ‑i̯a- form was already generalized in Brit.

‑og, Ml. W. ‑awc < Brit. ‑ākos adj. suffix § 153 (5) forms m. nouns as tywysog ‘prince’, marchog ‘knight’, swyddog ‘officer’, and f. nouns as ffolog, see § 139 iv; the former have feminines in ‑oges: tywysoges ‘princess’, cymydoges ‘neighbour’.

‑or, Ml. W. ‑awr < Lat. ‑ārius as kag̃hellaur i 62, Mn. W. canghellor < cancellārius, extended in W.: telynor ‘harpist’, cantor ‘singer’; f. ‑ores: cantores.

‑wr ‘man’: pregethwr ‘preacher’, gweithi̯wr ‘worker’ etc.; ‑w̯raig ‘woman’: gólchw̯raig ‘washerwoman’.

‑ydd < Brit. ‑íi̯ō: crydd ‘shoemaker’ § 86 i (5), melinydd ‘miller’, prydydd ‘poet’; ‑edydd < ‑atíi̯o: dringhedydd ‘climber’, nofiedydd D.G. 502 ‘swimmer’; ‑idyẟ: llemidit 466 llemhidyẟ  110 ‘leaper’; f. ‑yddes: prydyddes ‘poetess’, ‑adyddes: gwnïadyddes ‘sempstress’.

Endings of more restricted use: ‑ig in pendefig ‘chieftain’, gwledig ‘prince’, < *‑ī-ko‑, § 153 (9).

‑in in brenin < *‑īni‑; cf. pl. brenhinoedd; ‑in from Lat. ‑īno- in dewin for *diwin < dīvīnus, per(i̯)erin ‘pilgrim’ < *pergerīnos < peregrīnus.

Endings denoting instrument or thing: (1) ‑adur, iv (1): Ml. W. paladur, Mn. W. pladur ‘scythe’, gwnïadur ‘thimble’ etc.

‑in < ‑īna: melin ‘mill’ < Lat. molīna; cegin § 89 iii; so cribin, megin, etc. § 139 iv. The m. buelin may have ‑in < *‑ikno‑, cf. Gaul. celicnon ‘tower’, √qel- ‘high’: Lat. celsus, columen.

‑ell < ‑ella or ‑illa: padell ‘pan’ < Lat. patella; pibell ‘pipe’, ffynhonnell ‘fountain, source’.

‑og iv (6), besides names of persons, forms f. names of things, as arffedog ‘apron’, clustog ‘cushion’, of plants, as tewbanog ‘mullein’, of places, as mawnog ‘peat-bog’, brwynog ‘marsh’, etc., and m. names of birds as cyffylog ‘woodcock’, and animals, as draenog ‘hedgehog’, llwynog ‘fox’.

‑wr iv (8): crafwr ‘scraper’.