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§ 148 case gwaeth is formed from the super&shy;lative; see llydan (11) below. These are, then, the compared forms of gwael ‘base, vile’, the positive often having a suffix lost in compar&shy;ison, cf. mawr, hir, uchel; and gwael repre&shy;sents *upo-ped-lo-s; its deriv&shy;ative gwaelawt ‘bottom’, O. W. guoilaut, preserves the literal meaning (‘under foot’). Of course in Ml. and Mn. W. gwael is compared regularly, its relation to gwaethaf having been forgotten.

hawdd 'easy'; eqtv. hawsset Ỻ.A. 81, Mn. hawsed; cpv. haws; spv. hawssaf Ỻ.A. 81, 13, Mn. hawsaf.

Similarly an-háwdd, ánawẟ 1227, etc. § 48 iv, Mn. ánodd ‘difficult', O.W. hanaud ; eqtv. anháwsed; cpv. ánaws, ános; spv. anháwsaf.

hên ‘old’; eqtv. hỿned; cpv. hɥn 26 ≡ Mn. hɥ̂n; hỿnach 342; spv. hỿnaf, O.W. hinham.