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246 Eng. hind-er, be-hind, perhaps from √k̑ent- ‘point’; cf. blaenaf ‘foremost, first’: blaen ‘point’;—cyntaf § 106 iii (3); cynnar § 153 (4); cynffon ‘tail’ < *cynh-ffonn shows cynt meaning ‘hind’.

da ‘good’; eqtv. Ml. kynna 10,  1403; Ml. kystadɏl  i 290, kystal  10,  4, 7, etc., Mn. cystadl, usually cystal; as a noun Ml. dahet 70, daet  207, Mn. daëd, daed; cpv. gwell, spv. Ml. goreuhaf 65, B.B. 42, goreuaf Ỻ.A. 49, but usually goreu, Mn. W. goreu, gorau.

drwg ‘bad’; eqtv. kynẟrwc 1357,  11, 34, 37, etc., cỿnddrwg Gen. xli 19; as a noun drycket  227, Mn. drỿced D.G. 40; cpv. gwaeth; spv. gwaethaf.

drwg, Bret. drouk, droug, Ir. droch‑, drog- < Kelt. *druko- √dhreuɡh/q‑: Skr. drúh‑, dhruk ‘injuring, betraying’, drúhyati ‘hurts’, Germ. Trug: Lat. fraus;—cỿnddrwg § 147 iiiiv [sic] (4);—gwaeth, gwaethaf, Bret. gwaz, gwasa, Vann. gwac’h, Corn. gwêth, gwetha; the Bret. forms show that W. wae is for woe, so that Stokes’s *u̯akto‑s Fick⁴ ii 260 is inadmissible; hence probably gw̯aethaf < *gw̯oeẟ-haf < *upo-ped-isₑmos § 75 ii (1): Lat. pessimus < *ped-sₑmos; in that