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292 ‘whither will they go from the wolf of Gwynedd?’ O ba le y daw breuẟ&shy;wydon Ỻ.A. 57 ‘whence come dreams?’ I ble y tyn heb weled tir T.A. 14979/143 (D.G. 296) ‘whither will it (the ship) make for without seeing land?’ Pa du Ỻ.A. 19 ‘whither?’ py tu  484 ‘where’.

pa ẟelw, pa weẟ, pa ffurɏf, pa voẟ, late pa sut ‘how?’

pa bryd ‘when?’ pa awr (pa hawr § 112 i (2)), pa ẟyẟ, etc., ‘what hour?’ ‘what day?’

pa faint ‘how much? how many?’ followed by o ‘of, pa hyd ‘how long?’ pa sawl [rad.] ‘how many?’

pa gyfryw [soft] ‘what manner of…?'’ Mn. W. pa ryw fath [soft], pa fath [soft] id.

Py gyfryw wr yw awch tat chwi pan allo lleassu pawb velly 152 ‘what manner of man is your father when he can kill everybody so?’ Pa ryw fath rai  36.—cyfryw is the equiv&shy;alent of an equative § 149 ii (1).

pa ryw [soft] ‘what…?’ adjectival.

Sometimes pa ryw means ‘what kind of?’ as Pa ryw lun yssyẟ ar yr engylẏon Ỻ.A. 9 “qualem formam habent angeli?” But generally it means ‘what partic&shy;ular (thing, etc.)?’ or ‘what class of (things etc.)?’ preserv&shy;ing the older meaning of ryw § 165 vi; as pa ryw lu sy’n poeri i lawr D.G. 409 ‘what host is spitting down [the snow]?’ ynteu a ofynnwys pa ryw ẟynẏon oeẟ y r͑ei hynny 14 ‘and he asked what class of men those were.’

pa ryw became pa rỿ (cf. amrỿ- § 165 iv (9)) wrongly written pa ’r y, as pa ’r y ddyfnder M.Ỻ. i 212 ‘what depth?’ This is again reduced to pa r’ (wrongly written pa ’r), as pa r’ ofid waeth T.A. 14866/201 ‘what sorrow [could be] worse?’ Perygl i wŷr, pa ’r