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§ 164 hwn ‘this man’. The different forms are—sg. mas. hwn, hwnnw, fem., hon, honno, neut. hyn, hynny, pl. m. and f. hyn, hynny.

hwnnw means ‘that’ person or thing out of sight, ‘that’ in our minds. To indicate objects in sight, adverbs are added to hwn; thus hwn yna ‘that (which you see) there, that near you’, hwn acw, Ml. W. hwnn racko ‘that yonder’. So hwn yma ‘this here’. But yma and yna are also used figur&shy;ative&shy;ly; hwn yma ‘this’ which I am speaking of, hwn yna ‘that’ which I have just mentioned. Hence we can have the abstract hyn before these; but not before acw which is always used literally of place.

The neut. sg. hyn, hynny always denotes an abstraction; it means ‘this’ or ‘that’ circum&shy;stance, matter, thought, statement, precept, question, reason, etc.; or ‘this’ or ‘that’ number or quantity of anything; or ‘this’ or ‘that’ period or point of time.

Hynny, hep ef, ansyberwyt oeẟ 2 ‘that, said he, was un&shy;gentleman&shy;liness’ (meaning ‘that’ conduct); Pater noster&#8203;…&#8203;sef yw pwyll hynny yn tat ni Ỻ.A. 147 ‘Pater noster&#8203;…&#8203;the meaning of that is our Father’. A wnelo hyn nid ysgogir yn dragywydd Ps. xv 5; wedi hyn ‘after this’.