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286 :O erw i gant yr â gwr:
 * O ddwy i un ydd â anwr.—I.D., 150.

‘[It is] from an acre to a hundred that a man goes, [and] a churl from two to one.’

Between vowels yẟ or yr may become ’ẟ or ’r, e.g. wedi ’dd êl L.G.C. 394 ‘after [the time] when it goes’; but before a consonant it is always y; unlike the article, it cannot appear as ’r after a vowel if a consonant follows. On the sound of the y in the word see § 82 ii (1).

In Early Ml. W. the adverbial rel. often appears as yd (≡ yd, not yẟ), later written yt; this occurs not only before vowels but before conso&shy;nants also, the latter usually under&shy;going the soft mutation.

(1) The pres. ind. of the verb ‘to be’ has a relatival form sydd, sy, Ml. W. yssyẟ, yssy, in the often issi (i ≡ y). The full form ysydd is also used in Mn. W., and is generally wrongly divided y sydd, because the accent is on the second syllable. The suffixed rel. is the  of the verb, which always means ‘  is’, ‘  am’, etc.

In the verb pieu the interrogative element pi came to be used as a relative; see § 192 ii (2), (3).