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250 The following have defective comparison:

Spv. eithaf ‘uttermost’ < *ektₑmos: Lat. extimus, § 109 iv (1)§ 108 iv 1 [sic] (to cpv. eithr ‘except, but’, Ir. echtar < *ektro‑s: Lat. extrā § 99 v (4); to positive eh- ech- < *eks‑: Lat. ex).

Cpv. amgen ‘other; better’; also a later amgenach 200, D.N.  91.

Equatives with the prefix cỿ- may have before this the prefix go‑, as gogymaint, gogyfuwch etc. Thus—

i. Many nouns take the endings of comparison, and thereby become adjec&shy;tives of the respec&shy;tive degrees.

The following are in common use in Mn. W.:

rhaid ‘need’; eqtv. cɥn rheitied D.G. 299 ‘as necessary, as fitting’; cpv. Ml. r͑eidẏach 1249, Mn. rheitiach ‘more necessary, more fitting’; spv. Ml. r͑eittaf 1148, Mn. rheitiaf.

elw ‘profit’; cpv. elwach ‘profiting more, better off’, as (pa) faint elwach fyddi di? ‘how much better off wilt thou be?’

blaen ‘point, front’; also adj. as troed blaen ‘fore-foot’; spv. blaenaf, ‘foremost, first’; § 215 iii (10).

ôl ‘rear, track’, as yn ôl ‘after, according to’ § 215 iii (6), ôl troed ‘foot-print’; also adj. as troed ôl ‘hind foot’; spv. olaf ‘last’ < *ol‑isₑmos: Lat. ultimus < *ol-tₑmos.