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282 instead of as on the anal. of ae ‘who…him’;—rel. nyw < nuy (≡ nw͡y) < *no ĭ, see ii (2).

Affixed.—The substantive forms are the same as the inde&shy;pendent forms. Auxiliary: i,. ‑e (≡ ɥ) < *iᵹ < *egō: Lat. ego, Gk. 🇬🇷 etc.; original&shy;ly used as subject after a verb, it came to supple&shy;ment a 1st sg. pron. in other cases;—di, ‑de < *tu;—ni,. ‑ne < *nes or *nos (which may have become nom. like nōs in Lat.).

¶ For pronouns suffixed to prepositions see §§ 208–212.

i. A possessive adjective was placed after its noun, which was usually preceded by the article, as y tŷ tau D.G. 18 ‘thy house’, sometimes by a pref. or inf. pron., as ẏ’th wyndut teu 1202 ‘to thy paradise’; rarely it was added to an in&shy;definite noun, as
 * Ac i wneuthur mesurau
 * O benillion mwynion mau.—D.G. 289.

‘And to make measures out of sweet verses of mine.’

The above adnominal use is common as a poetical construc&shy;tion; in prose it survived only in one or two phrases like y rei eiẟaw Ỻ.A. 20 “suos”. Ordi&shy;narily the posses&shy;sive adjective stands as the comple&shy;ment of the verbs ‘to be’, ‘to become’, etc., as malpei teu vei 127 ‘as if it were thine’; or is used sub&shy;stantial&shy;ly preceded by the article, as arnaf i ac ar y meu  268 ‘on me and on mine’.

(1) The forms of the possessive adjectives in use in Ml. W. are the following-:

In Mn. W. the first three forms became mau, tau, eiddo, by the regular change of final syllables; and new forms of the 1st and 2nd persons arose; see iii.

The above forms are sometimes extended by the addition of auxiliary affixed pronouns; thus meu i or meu inneu, teu di or