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§ 165 (1) The first alter&shy;native may be a noun or personal or demon&shy;strative pronoun, as ti ac arall ‘thou and another’ (i.e. such as thou), hyn a’r llall ‘this and that’.


 * Câr yn cyhuddo arall!
 * Hawdd i’r llaw gyhuddo’r llall.—T.A., ii 78.

The first alternative may be implied, as in other languages; as y dydd arall M.Ỻ. i 178 ‘the other day’; y nos arall 1362, D.G. 25 ‘the other night’; Gad i eraill gadw arian T.A.  6 ‘let others hoard money’.

All the forms of the first term except y naill subst. may be used without a sequel as ordinary pronom&shy;inalia meaning ‘one, some’; thus

Adj. y naill ‘one’ in y naill hanner ‘one half’ (now generally ‘about a half’), y naill du or y neilltu ‘one side’ (hence neilltuo ‘to retire’ etc.); neill-law see example.

Subst. un ‘one’, pl. rhai, Ml. r͑ei ‘some’; often with qualify&shy;ing adjec&shy;tives un da ‘a good one’, rhai drwg ‘bad ones’. Also yr un ‘the one’, pl. y rhai, Ml. y r͑ei ‘the ones’; these are chiefly used with adjec&shy;tives as yr un drwg ‘the evil one’, or with a relative clause § 164 iv (1); and yr un instead of the indef. un in negative sentences, as—

Adj. yr un [m. rad., f. soft] ‘the same’, followed, if necessary, by ac (ag), a ‘as’. Also un [soft], forming compounds strict or loose with nouns; the compound is an adj. meaning ‘of the same…’, § 149 ii (3).