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312 my advice avails to thee’ i.e. my a. is worth little. Pa obeith yssyẟ ẏ’r porthmyn? Ychydic Ỻ.A. 40 ‘what hope is there for the merchants? A little’. ychydig o nifer Ezec. v 3; ychydig o honaw Job iv 12.

Adj. ychydig [soft] sg. ‘a little’, pl. ‘a few’.

Subst. odid ‘a rarity’.

(1) Adj. aml [soft] sg. ‘many a’, pl. ‘many’; ambell [soft] ‘an occa&shy;sional’.
 * Aml iawn waedd am Elin wen,
 * Ami eisiau am elusen.—T.A., . ii 83.

‘Full many a cry for fair Elin, many a need for charity.’
 * Ond o hirbell ymgellwair
 * (O bai well ym) ymbell air.—I.D. 23.

‘But from afar bantering (if it were better for me) an occasional word.’

i. Subst. neb ‘any one’, dim ‘anything’, are used chiefly with negatives; as ni welais neb ‘I did not see anybody’;