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§ 159 :Meined dy wasg mewn y tant,
 * Chwi a ’mdroech i’m dau rychwant.—T.A. 14866/105.

‘So slender is thy waist in the girdle, you would turn round in my two spans.’

The independent personal pronouns are the forms used when the pronoun is not immediate&shy;ly dependent on a noun, a verb or an inflected prepo&shy;sition. They occur (a) at the beginning of a sentence, see § 162 vii (2);—(b) after a conjunc&shy;tion or un&shy;inflected prepo&shy;sition, including fel, megis;—(c) after ys ‘it is’, mae (mai) ‘that it is’, panyw id., pei ‘if it were’, etc., and after the un&shy;inflected heb y ‘said’ (heb y mi § 198 i). Inde&shy;pendent personal pronouns are either  or  ; thus:

Simple: sg. 1. mi, 2. ti, 3. m. ef, f. hi; pl. 1. ni, 2. chw̯i, 3. Ml. wy, wynt, Mn. hŵy, hŵynt (also occa&shy;sional&shy;ly in Late Ml. W.).

Reduplicated: (1) Ml. W., sg. 1. mivi, myvi, myvy, 2. tidi, tydi, 3. [m. efo], f. hihi; pl. 1. nini, 2. chw̯ichw̯i, chwchw̯i, 3. wyntwy, hwyntwy.—Mn. W. sg. 1 mỿfi, 2. tỿdi, 3. [m. efo, fo (later fe, efe see below)], f. hỿhi; pl. 1. nỿni, 2. chw̯ỿchw̯i (often pro&shy;nounced but rarely written chwchw̯i), 3. hwynt-hwy.

mivi, tidi 4, myfi (see vyvi § 160 iii (1)), chwichwi  67, chwchwi  164, hwyntwy  132, wyntwy  165.

These pronouns are usually accented on the ultima: mỿfī́, tỿdī́, hwynt-hw̄́y, etc.; but they were formerly accented on the penult also, and this accentu&shy;ation survives in certain phrases used in Powys. Examples of penul&shy;timate accentu&shy;ation:
 * Du serchog yw’th glog mewn glyn,
 * A mỿ́fi sy’n d’ ymófyn.—D.G. 521.

‘Of a lovely black is thy coat in the glen, and it is I who call thee.’—To the blackbird.’
 * Nid dídolc onid tỿ́di;
 * Nato Duw bod hebot ti.—S.M., Ỻ 133/261.

‘There is none faultless but thee; God forbid [that we should] be without thee.’