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§ 163 departed from. But in lit. W. sentences of the above form are used rhetor&shy;ically where the noun or adv. is not emphatic; hence some scholars have doubted that a and yẟ are relatives. It seems clear however that the sense preserved in the spoken language is the literal one. This is confirmed by the use of the rel. verbs sydd, pieu, see iv (1), § 192 ii (3); cf. § 163 v.

i. The interrogative pronouns, adjectives and adverbs are the following (the form of the inter&shy;rogative is the same whether the question be direct or indirect):

Ml. and Mn. W. pwy ‘who?’

(2) Ml. W. pa, py, ba, by, Mn. W. pa, ba (rarely pỿ) ‘what…?’ adjec&shy;tival. It causes the soft mutation ( pa gur ≡ pa ᵹwr).

Pa gur yv y porthaur 94 ‘what man is the porter?’ Pa gyvarwydd a vyẟ ẏmi  4 ‘what indi&shy;cation will there be to me?’ ẏ edrych pa veẟwl yw yr eiẟunt do. 39 ‘to see what thought is theirs’; ym mha ddinas&shy;oedd y maent yn preswylio Num. xiii 19.—Py ẟrwc yw hynny 178 ‘what evil is that?’ i.e. what does that matter? py le pan ẟeuei 132,  204 ‘whence he came’.—Ba beth