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§ 165 dwfɏr hwnnw do. 167 ‘and that water has every kind of taste’. a phob r͑yw unpeth 1214 ‘and every single thing’. i bob rhyw aderyn Ezec. xxxix 4; o bob rhyw beth Matt. xiii 47.

neb rhyw ‘any, any kind of’, in negative sentences.

neb rhyw ddim, see § 170 iv (2).

amryw ‘various, several’. In Ml. W. it was generally used with a sg. noun; in Late Mn. W. a pl. noun is generally used. In the Bible the noun is sometimes sg., but often pl.

amryw, like rhyw, forms the first element of a compound; in some cases the compound is strict, and amryw then appears as amrỿ‑; thus amrỿ́-liw ‘parti-coloured’; amrỿ́son ‘wrangle’ (sôn ‘talk’); amrỿ́fus ‘erring’ (‑fus <*mois- < *moit‑t‑: Lat. mūto, E. miss, W. meth).

The recent amrai is a fiction; see Silvan Evans, s. v.

cyfryw ‘such’, usually with the article, y cyfryw; followed, if necessary, by ac (ag), a ‘as’, which may be omitted before a demon&shy;strative pron. or a relative clause (the rel. itself is ‘as’ in this case, cf. Eng. the same who; and the demonst. prob. repre&shy;sents an old obl. case of compar&shy;ison).

On the analogy of y meint etc., y rhyw is used instead of y cyfryw in the above construc&shy;tions.