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260 :Tristach weithian bob cantref;
 * Bellach naw nigrifach nef.—G.Gr. (m. D.G.), 4.

‘Sadder now is every cantred; henceforth nine times happier is heaven.’

A m. cardinal is also used before another cardinal, as tri t(h)rychant 18 ‘3 × 300’, tri phumcant  166 ‘3 × 500’, dau wythgant ib. ‘2 × 800’, naw deg a saith ib. ‘9 × 10 + 7’.

Distributives are formed by putting bob before a cardinal, the initial of which is softened; thus bob un, bob ẟeu 132 ‘one by one, two by two’, Ir. cach ōin, cach dā; bob ddau I.G. 180, L.G.C. 381, 436; bob dri L.G.C. 148 ‘three by three’; also bop un ac un 49 ‘one by one’, bob un a dau  26; and bob gannwr L.G.C. 383 ‘in hundreds’, lit. ‘every hundred-man’, cf. Ir. cach cōic-er ‘every five-man’. Similarly bob ail ‘every other’, pob eilwers 181 ‘alternate&shy;ly’.

Fractions: $1⁄2$, hanner; $1⁄3$, traean; $1⁄4$, pedwaran, chwarter; $1⁄8$, wythfed; $1⁄100$, canfed; $2⁄3$ deuparth; $3⁄4$, Mn. tri chwarter; $3⁄8$, tri wythfed.

R͑ann truan: traean 973 ‘the share of the weakling: one-third’. deuparth&#8203;…&#8203;trayan 130.

i. Either of the elements of a compound may be a noun (n) or an adjective (a); thus we have four possible types: 1. n-n; 2. a-n; 3. a-a; 4. n-a. The formation of compounds of these types is an ordinary gram&shy;matical construc&shy;tion, and any elements may be combined if they make sense, whether the combi&shy;nation is in general use or not. The relation to one another of the elements