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 * | Positive
 * | Eqtv.
 * | Cpv.
 * | Spv.
 * glân ‘clean’ || glaned || glanach || glanaf
 * teg ‘fair’ || teced || tecach || tecaf
 * gw̯lyb ‘wet’ || gw̯lỿped || gw̯lỿpach || gw̯lỿpaf
 * tlawd ‘poor’ || tloted || tlotach || tlotaf
 * budr ‘dirty’ || butred || butrach || butraf
 * | gw̯ɥdn ‘tough’
 * | gw̯ỿtned
 * | gw̯ỿtnach || gw̯ỿtnaf
 * }
 * budr ‘dirty’ || butred || butrach || butraf
 * | gw̯ɥdn ‘tough’
 * | gw̯ỿtned
 * | gw̯ỿtnach || gw̯ỿtnaf
 * }
 * }

But in Ml. W. the final consonant of the positive was not hardened in the comparative; thus we have tebygach 44,  30 ‘more likely’, tegach ‘fairer’ beside teckaf ‘fairest’  226,  164, hyfrydach  50 ‘more pleasant’, r͑eidẏach  1249 ‘more necessary’. The tenuis is rare: kaletach 64, 69 ‘harder’. The media remained in Early Mn. W., e.g. rywiogach L.G.C. see § 115 ii; caledach G.G1. c. i 195; tegach T.A. 14967/89; tlodach see ex.
 * Aeth cerdd dafod yn dlodach;
 * Aed ef i wlad nef yn iach.—H.D., 99/416.

‘Poetry became poorer [by his loss]; may he go safe to heaven.’

The equative and superlative, however, always have the tenuis: kyn-debycket 34,  22, teccet  181,  84, teccaf a gwastataf  179,  83, etc. The ‑h- which caused this hardening is sometimes preserved in Ml. W.: dahet  50 ‘as good’; mwyhaf  179,  83; ky vawhet, gurhaw § 149 i (2); pennhaw (‑w ≡ ‑f)  102; see § 48 iv.

¶ On i̯ before the ending, see § 35 ii (2).

In Ml. W. f. forms of the derived degrees arose, the endings being added to the f. positive; these are new formations, and are less frequent in earlier than in later texts; thus dissymlaf of 6 becomes disemɏlaf in  4. Other examples are tromhaf 82,. 60; gwen(n)ach. 60; gwennet 1239; dofnet do. 1276. A few survive in the Mn. period, eos dlosaf D.G. 402 ‘most beautiful nightingale’; berraf 17; Wennaf Wen.

(1) The comparison of adjectives in the Ar. languages is largely formed by means of the Ar. suffix *‑i̯es‑. The L°-grade *‑i̯ōs gives Lat. ‑ior nom. sg. m. f. of the cpv.; the F°-grade ‑i̯os gives Lat. ‑ius the corresponding neuter; the R-grade ‑is is seen in the Lat. cpv. adverb mag-is. The R-grade ‑is- with other suffixes gave many forms of the cpv. and spv.