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254 Equative: am gyflavan mor anweẟus ac a rywnaethoeẟ 30 ‘for so horrible a murder as [that] which she had committed.’—pryf mor ẟielw a hwnnw do. 78 ‘so vile a reptile as that.’—peth mor ag̃hywir a hynny 177 ‘so wrong a thing as that’.
 * Ni bu fyd i neb o Fôn
 * Mor oer ag y mae’r awron.—H.K.

‘There has not been to any man of Môn so cold a world as it is now.’

mor with a noun forms the equivalent of an eqtv. adj., as O. W. morliaus gl. quam multos; Ml. W. mor eisseu 1428 ‘how necessary’. The construc&shy;tion is not common, and is now obsolete, but several examples occur in the Early Mn. bards.

The m- of mor is never mutated, but remains in all positions: thus after f. sg. nouns: gyflavan mor anweẟus (2) above; arch mor drahaus 227 ‘so insolent a request’. This may be due to its exclam&shy;ative origin.

i. A positive adjective is sometimes repeated to enhance its meaning. As a rule the iteration forms a loose compound, the second element having its initial softened, as A da dda hyd i ddiwedd W.Ỻ. 62 ‘and very good till his death’. Very rarely it forms a strict compound, as