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§ 149 pen(n) ‘head’; spv. pennaf ‘chief’; also in Ml. and Early Mn. W. cpv. pennach Ỻ.A. 89, G.Gl. 83/58 ‘higher, superior’; § 89 iii.

rhad ‘gift, grace’, having become an adj. ‘cheap’ from the phrase yn rhad ‘gratis’, is compared regularly.

rhad < *prət‑: rhann, Skr. pūrtám ‘reward’; see rhaid above.

diwedd ‘end’; spv. diwaethaf ‘last’ Ỻ.A. 7, 1195, 1249, 1298,  16/19 ., 1 Petr i 5 by R.D. (in Wm.S.); diwethaf Ỻ.A. 43, 59,  14/11 .,  i 4, 48, 50, Matt. xx 8 Wm.S.; so in Es. ii 2, xlviii 12, Jer. xxiii 20 in 1620; but generally in 1620, and every&shy;where in late bibles, diweddaf.

Many other cases occur in Ml. W.: gurhaw (≡ gwrhaf) 41 ‘most manly’; amserach  9,  6 ‘more timely’; llessach  17,  11 ‘more bene&shy;ficial’ (lles ‘benefit’); dewissach  11 ‘prefer&shy;able’ (dewis ‘choice’ noun); pennadurẏaf do. 8 ‘most princely’; ky vawhet R.M. 149 ‘as cowardly’, bawaf 1278 ‘most vile’ (baw ‘dirt’).

(1) Equative adjec&shy;tives are formed from many nouns by prefixing cỿf‑, cỿm‑, (as cyfled, cymaint); thus kyfliw 179 ‘of the same colour’; kyvurẟ  75 ‘of the same rank’;