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§ 154 huechet.&#8203;—7, seithfed, Ml. seithvet.&#8203;—8, wythfed.&#8203;—9, nawfed.&#8203;—10, degfed, Ml. decvet.&#8203;—11, unfed ar ddeg, Ml. unvet arẟec.&#8203;—12, deu&shy;ddegfed, Ml. deuẟecvet.&#8203;—13, trydydd (f. trydedd) ar ddeg.&#8203;—15, pym&shy;thegfed.&#8203;—16, unfed ar bymtheg.&#8203;—17, ail (or eilfed) ar bymtheg.&#8203;—18, deunawfed.&#8203;—20, ugeinfed.&#8203;—30, degfed ar hugain.&#8203;—40, deu&shy;geinfed.&#8203;—41, unfed a deugain.&#8203;—100, canfed.&#8203;—1000, milfed.

(1) Multiplicatives are formed by means of gwaith, Ml. gweith f. ‘fois’, preceded by cardinal numbers, the two generally compound&shy;ed, but sometimes accented separate&shy;ly ; as unwaith or un waith ‘once’, Ir. ōenḟecht; dwywaith ‘twice’, teir&shy;gwaith ‘thrice’, pedair gwaith ‘four times’, pum waiih ‘five times’, chwe gwaith, seith&shy;waith Lev. iv 6, 17, saith waith do. viii 11, wythwaith, nawwaith 227, dengwaith, ugein&shy;waith, canwaith, milwaith.

But before a comparative the m. cardinal only is generally used, the two sometimes compound&shy;ed; pum mwy D.W. 146 ‘five [times] more’ i.e. five times as many, saith mwy Lev. xxvi 18, 21 ‘seven times more’; déuwell 1271, D.G. 157 ‘twice as good’, dau lanach  60 ‘twice as fair’; yn gant eglurach  10 ‘a hundred times as bright’.
 * Moes ugeinmil, moes gánmwy,
 * A moes, O moes im un mwy.—Anon., i 140.

‘Give me twenty thousand [kisses], give a hundred times as many, and give, Oh give me one more.’