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§ 164 :''Mae’r henwyr? Ai meirw'' ’r rheini?
 * Hynaf oll heno wyf i.—G.Gl., . 100/411.

‘Where are the elders? Are those dead? Eldest of all to-night am I.’

Adjectival hwn and hon form improper compounds with nouns of time; thus yr awr hon > yr áwron (§ 48 iv), yr áwran; y waith hon > Ml. W. e weẏthẏon i 242  usually wéithon, Mn. wéithi̯on, wéithi̯an (§ 35 ii (1)); y pryd hwn > y prýtwn 102; y wers hon > y wérshon  128; all the above mean ‘now’. So y nos hon > y nóson ‘that night’, and y dydd hwn > y dýthwn, y dẃthwn § 66 ii (1) 'that day'. The form dỿthwn was still in use in the 17th cent.; see Silvan Evans, s.v. dwthwn.


 * Arwydd ydyw yr awron
 * Wreiddiaw Rhys o’r ddaear hon.—L.G.C. 206.

‘It is a sign now that Rhys is sprung from this land.’


 * Ar bob allawr yr awran
 * Y gwneir cost o’r gwin a’r cann.—D.N., 149.

‘On every altar now provision is made of wine and white [bread].’


 * Bardd weithian i Ieuan wyf.—L.G.C. 275.

‘I am now a bard to Ieuan.’

(1) The forms yr hwn, yr hon and yr hyn (but not *yr hwnnw etc.) are used before the relative, meaning, with the latter, ‘the one who’ or ‘he who’, ‘she who’, and ‘that which’; in the pl.