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342 we sometimes find -ā́dd in the Late Mn. period, e.g. cashâdd E.P. 222 for cashā́odd, gwellhā́dd C.C. 338; cf. cā́dd § 188 i (6).

i. The full form rhoddaf ‘I give, put’, v.n. rhoddi, survives throughout as a literary form in Mn. W.; but in the living language the -ẟ- had already disappeared in the Ml. period, and the verb is also conjugated like trṓ-af, trṓf, in Ml. and Mn. W.; as roet (1 syll.) R.P. 1217 ‘was given’, roy A.L. i 6 ‘to give’; see § 110 iv (2) and § 33 iii (1). In the 3rd sg. pres. ind. rhydd the -ẟ survives in the spoken lang. (and is sometimes wrongly transferred to try); but rhy is used commonly in lit. W. as Duw a ry gwymp i'r drwg ŵr H.A. F. 10 ‘God will give the evil man a fall’. For rhy however, the compound dỿ́-rɥ is often found ; and dỿ́-ro for the and sg. pres. impv. rho ; by assim. of ỿ, dỿro became doro W.M. 53, 478, which is the form used in Gwynedd. The bards use forms with and without -ẟ- indifferently:
 * Rhoddi gwin yn rhwydd a gaid,
 * Rhannu a rhoi i weiniaid. — D.I.D., G. 179.

‘There was a generous giving away of wine, a distributing and giving to the weak.’

In the subj. mood, we have r̔o-ho A.L. i 6, contracted to r̔o W.M. 23; and *r̔oẟ-ho giving rhoddo (r̔oto, -t- ≡ -ẟ-, B.B. 29), or rhotho by the comparatively rare change of ẟh to th (≡þ) § 111 iii (2).
 * A ro gam i wraig o Iâl,
 * Fo ry Duw rai a'i dial. — L. Mon, A 31059/78.

‘Whoever deals injustice to a woman of Yale, God will provide those who will avenge her.’
 * Maer Rhuthun im a'i rhotho. T.A., A 14976/169.

‘May the Mayor of Ruthin give it [the bow] to me.’

Beside the aor. 1st and 2nd sg. r̔oẟeis, r̔oẟeist (r̔oteist, -t- ≡ -ẟ-, B.B. 30), a perfect was formed for these persons by adding -um, -ost to the aor. stem r̔oes-; see 182 iv (i); thus r̔oessum W.M. 63, Ỻ.A. 124 ‘I have given’. There is also a plup. 3rd sg. r̔oessoeẟ, 3rd pl. r̔oessoeẟynt; this survived in Early Mn. W. but seems to be used as a perf.: