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§ 155 and the meaning of the resulting compound must be left to be dealt with in the Syntax; here, only the forms of compounds can be consid&shy;ered.

(1) The second element of a compound has its initial softened; thus: n‑n háf-ddydd ‘summer’s day’; a‑n háwdd-fyd ‘pleasure’; a‑a gw̯ýrdd-las ‘greenish blue’; n‑a pén-gam ‘wry-headed’.

When the first element ends in n or r, and the second begins radically with ll or rh, the latter is not softened: gwin-llan, per-llan, pen-rhyn see § 111 i (1); so gwen-llys L.G.C. 8, eurllin D.G. 13, etc.; similarly, though less regularly, in loose compounds: hên llew, hên llys, pur llawn § 111 i (1).

The following adjectives generally precede their nouns, and so form compounds, mostly loose, with them:

prif ‘chief’, as prif lys 1, prif-lys  1 ‘chief court’, prif ẟinas  179 ‘chief city’, prif gaer ib. ‘chief castle’; y prif ddyn ‘the chief man’. It cannot be used as an ordinary adj.; such a phrase as *dyn prif does not exist.

hên, as hên ŵr or hén-wr ‘old man’; hên ddyn id., also hén-ddyn whence E. quoth Hending; Hén-llan Ỻ.A. 105, Hén-llys etc., hên ŷd Jos. v 11, yr hên ffordd Job xxii 15, yr hên derfyn Diar.