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§ 170 heb Dduw, heb ddim ‘without God, without anything’. Also in con&shy;ditional sentences, as o phecha neb 1 Ioan ii 1 ‘if any man sin’; in questions; in com&shy;parisons; etc.

A derivative nebawd occurs: nebaud 21, 43 ‘any one’, ny gwybyẟ nebawt  19 ‘no one will know’.

Owing to constant association with negatives neb and dim came to be used in certain phrases for ‘nobody’ and ‘nothing’.

dim and neb are positive in positive sentences in the phrases—

pob dim ‘everything’:

y neb ‘the one, he’ before a relative § 162 vii (1):

twyllwr yw y neb a aẟefvo kyfvrinach arglwyẟ ẏ’r nep a wypo ẏ vot yn elyn iẟaw Ỻ.A. 26 ‘he who betrays a lord’s secret to him whom he knows to be his enemy is a traitor’. Cf. Ỻ.A. 28, 32, 33, 34, etc. Y neb a atalio ei yd, y bobl a’i mell&shy;dithia Diar. xi 26.

neb un § 165 iv (3).

(1) neb is used adjectivally, thus neb [rad.] ‘any’: ni bu yma neb amarch. 14 ‘there has been no dis&shy;respect here’. It is rarely adjec&shy;tival except in the following phrases:

neb un above; neb rhyw § 165 iv (8); neb r͑yw ẟim ‘anything at all’, 64, 65,  46, 47; neb dyn ‘any man’ Ỻ.A. 126.

neb cyfryw [soft] ‘any at all’, cf. § 168 i (2).

Kanyt oes neb kyfryw rym … y gallem ni vynet 178 ‘for there is no power by which we might go’.

nĕ́mawr, nĕ́mor (for *neb mawr), with a negative ‘not much, not many, but little’.