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y cyfryw is also substantival.

pa gyfryw § 163 ii (5); pob cyfryw ‘all’ emphatic § 168 i (2); neb cyfryw ‘any such’ § 170 iv (3).

unrhyw, generally yr unrhyw ‘the same’, followed, if necessary, by ac (ag), a ‘as’.

un rhyw or unrhyw ‘same’ is also substantival. Ponyt un r͑yw a gymerth Iudas a Phedɏr Ỻ.A. 25 “Nonne Judas idem accepit quod Petrus?”

rhyw is also used as a noun m. ‘kind’; and as an ordinary adj. in the phrase rhyw i ‘[it is] natural to…’. From rhyw ‘kind’ come rhywiog ‘kindly, of a good kind’, rhyw&shy;ogaeth ‘species’, afryw, afrywiog ‘unnatural, harsh’.

Y rhyw hwn Marc ix 29.—mor oeẟ ryw ym llew llywẏaw G.D.A. 1226 ‘how natural it was to my lion to rule!’ Rhyw iddi roi rhodd yr ŵyl T.A.  9817/179 ‘It is natural to her to give a gift at the feast’. Nid rhyw iddaw ond rhoddi G.G1. 152/102 ‘It is only natural to him to give’.

y naill (Ml. y neill) ‘the one’ is for *ynn eill in which *ynn = hynn ‘this’, Ir. ind ‘the’ < *sendos § 164 vi; *eill < *ál’li̯os < *álali̯os, redupl. of *ali̯os: Lat. alius, Gk. ; owing to the wrong division the y is treated as the art. and becomes ’r after a vowel.—Ml. W. y lleill ‘the one’ may be similarly for *yll eill, in which *yll is an l-demon&shy;strative, like Lat. ille etc., ultimate&shy;ly allied to *ali̯os itself, Brugmann² II ii 340.—y llall similarly for *yll all; all < *áli̯os; pl. y lleill with *eill < *áli̯ī.—arall < *aráli̯os (: Ir. araile)