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278 :Ni’th wŷl drem i’th wâl dramawr;
 * E’th glyw mil, nyth y glaw mawr.—D.G. 133.

‘No eye sees thee in thy vast lair; a thousand hear thee, [in] the nest of the great rain.’—To the Wind.

a’th eura di § 7 ii; lle’th fagwyd D.G. 323 ‘where thou wast reared’; am ssui&shy;nassei-e douit 24 ‘the Lord created me’; ef a’m llas G.Gl. § 175 iv (6) ‘I was killed’; o’m lleddi D.G. 59 ‘if thou killest me’; o’th gaf do. 524 ‘if I may have thee’; oni’th gaf do. 29 ‘if I have thee not’; beith leẟit 1255 ‘if thou wert killed’; rym gelwir  36 ‘I am called’; see § 171 iii (2).

The 3rd sg. and pl. ‑e or ‑y, Mn. ‑i, ’i (’u) is used after the relative a and the affir&shy;mative particles a, ef a, e, fo, fe; as pawb ay dyly 8 ‘everybody owes it’; e’i gwelir D.G. 524 ‘it will be seen’. It also follows the relative y, and is con&shy;tracted with it to y (= y y ‘that&#8203;…&#8203;it’); as llyma yr weẟ y keffy 2 ‘this is the way that (= in which) thou shalt have it’; sef val y gwnaf  3 ‘this is how I will do it’; val y herchis  89 ‘as he commanded them’ (val is followed by y ‘that’). In Early Mn. W. this is written i, later ei or eu; recently it has been written y’i and y’u in order to show the con&shy;struction; but there is no authority for this, and the tradi&shy;tional sound appears to be i (not ỿi̯).

The 3rd sg. and pl. ‑s is used after ni, na, oni ‘unless’ and o ‘if’; as Ae eiẟaw nys arvo&shy;llassant Ỻ.A. 161 ‘and his own received him not’; onis cwplaa oe weith&shy;retoeẟ 15 ‘unless he fulfils it in his works’; os myn L.G.C. 187 ‘if he desires it’. It often serves to save the repe&shy;tition of the object in the second of two negative sentences: ny mynneis inheu un gwr&#8203;…&#8203;ac nys mynnaf 11 ‘I did not want a husband, and do not want one’; nyd enwaf neb ac ny’s gwra&shy;dwyddaf J.D.R. [xvii] ‘I name no one, and disgrace him not’; and often refers to a noun or pronoun placed absolute&shy;ly at the head of a sentence, as ond ef nis gwelsant Luc xxiv 24 ‘but [as for] him, they saw him not’; Safnau’r môr nis ofnir mwy D.W. 271 ‘the mouths of the sea—one no longer fears them’. The form ‑s is also used after pe, thus Mn. W. pes for pei y‑s ‘were it that&#8203;…&#8203;it’, as pei ys gwypwn 42; in Ml. W. generally written pei as, as pei as mynhut  142 ‘if thou wishedst it’. Similarly gwedy as gwelych 83 ‘after thou hast seen it’. After affir&shy;mative neu, as neus r͑oẟes 20 ‘he has given it’; rarely after affir&shy;mative a, as As attebwys dofyẟ  24 ‘the Lord answered him’.—In Late Mn. W. nis is sometimes treated as if the s meant nothing; such a misuse is rare in Ml. W. and, where it occurs, is probably a scribal error, as Nys gwelas llygat eiroet y sawl ẟynẏon Ỻ.A. 117 with nys repeated from the previous line. On os for o ‘if’ see § 222 v (1).

In Early Ml. verse we sometimes find nuy (≡ nw͡y) in relative sentences cor&shy;respond&shy;ing to nis in direct state&shy;ments (nwy from an old contrac&shy;tion of *no i̯, cf. *wy (1) above, *no being the orig. form of the neg. rel., see § 162 vi (3)); as nis guibit ar nuy g(u)elho 7 ‘he