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§ 153 :Péll-bell, ar draws pob hýll-berth,
 * Po bellaf, gwaethaf yw’r gwerth.—G.Gl. 146/154.

‘Very far, across every horrid bush [I have driven my flock]; the further, the less is their worth.’

In some cases the initial of the second adj. is not softened, so that the two do not consti&shy;tute a formal compound; as Da da fu o grud hyd fedd W.Ỻ. 40 ‘very good was she from the cradle to the grave’; Drwg drwg Diar xx 14. Where the adj. begins with a vowel or an immutable consonant, there is, of course, no indi&shy;cation of the con&shy;struction; e.g. isel isel Deut. xxviii 43.

A cpv. is compounded with itself to express progressive increase in the quality denoted by the adj. When the cpv. is a mono&shy;syllable the compound is generally strict, as gwáeth-waeth ‘worse and worse’, lléi-lai ‘less and less’, lléd-led ‘wider and wider’, nés-nes ‘nearer and nearer’, mwy-fwy Phil. i 9 ‘more and more’. In present-day speech the compound is oftener loose, as llái lái. When the cpv. is a poly&shy;syllable, the compound is neces&shy;sarily loose; see the ex. below.
 * Ef â afon yn fẃyfwy
 * Hyd y môr, ac nid â mwy.—L.G.C. 357.

‘A river goes increasing to the sea, and goes no more.’
 * Gŵr a wella’r gwŷr 'wéllwell,
 * A gwŷr a wna’r gŵr yn well.—D.N., 4,  161.

‘A master who betters the men more and more, and men who make the master better.’

A Dafydd oedd yn myned gryfach gryfach, ond tŷ Saul oedd yn myned wannach wannach. 2 Sam. iii 1.

The combination always forms a compound, for the second cpv. has always its soft initial.

Derivative adjectives are formed from the stems of nouns, adjec&shy;tives and verbs by the addition of the following suffixes:

‑adwy, ‑ediw, ‑edig, ‑awd verbal adjective suffixes, see § 206.

Ml.W. ‑awdɏr seems to be ‑awd with excrescent ‑r § 113 i (1):