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248 hên, Ir. sen < Ar. *seno‑s = Gk. 🇬🇷 Skr. sánaḥ, Lith. sė́nas ‘old’, Lat. sen‑;—cpv. hŷn, Ir. siniu < *seni̯ōs = Lat. senior; spv. hyn(h)af < *sen-isₑmos, see llydan below.—The cpv. hɥ̂n is still in collo&shy;quial use, though the later and weaker hynach is more common; in S.W. also a still later henach, henaf, re-formed from the pos.

hir ‘long’; eqtv. kyhyt 43, cyhyd § 41 v, contr. to cɥ̂d; as a noun hɥ̂d, e.g. in er hyd ‘however long’; cpv. hwy; spv. hwyaf.

i̯euanc, i̯efanc, ifanc § 76 iii (3) ‘young’; eqtv. ieuanghet 160, ivanghet  84; cpv. Ml. ieu 26, 28, Mn. i̯au; also ieuang&shy;hach 66; ieuangach Job xxx 1; spv. ieuhaf i 542, ieuaf, ifaf, ieuangaf.

ieuanc, Bret. iaouank, Ir. ōac, contr. ōc (whence W. hog-lanc ‘lad’);—cpv. ieu < *i̯uu̯i̯ōs (Ir. ōa with ‑a from the spv., see 11 below): Skr. yávīyas‑;—spv. i̯euaf, Ir. ōam < *i̯uu̯isₑmos.

issel, now written isel ‘low’; eqtv. isset 94, Mn. ised; cpv. is (≡ īs); spv. issaf, isaf.

llydan ‘wide’; eqtv. cyfled, as a noun lled; cpv. lled, late lletach; spv. lletaf.

W. llydan, Ir. lethan § 63 viii (1); W. lled noun, see ibid.; spv. lletaf < *plet-isₑmo‑s. The cpv. lled, Ir. letha (‑a added in Ir.) is irregular; Osthoff derived W. lled from *plet-is (Thurn&shy;eysen Gr. 227), but it is not clear why the adverbial form ‑is should be general&shy;ized (the regular *pleti̯ōs would give W. *llyd, Ir. *lithiu). As many compar&shy;atives were the same as the super&shy;lative without its ending, e.g. hwy, hwyaf, Ir. sīa, sīam, the proba&shy;bility is that some,