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§ 194 (1) Ml. W. amygaf ‘I defend’: 3rd sg. pres. ind. amwc. 29; v.n. amwyn.

am-w͡yn seems to mean literally ‘fight for’, since it is followed by â ‘with’; as amwyn y gorflwch hwn a mi 122 ‘to fight for this goblet with me’; amvin ae elin terwin guinet  57 ‘to fight with his enemy for the border of Gwynedd’.

Perf. sg. 3. amuc 39,  12, neu‑s amuc ae wayw  11 ‘defended him with his spear’. There is also a form amwyth used intransitively, and therefore prob. a middle form like aeth; as pan amwyth ae alon yn Llech Wen 57 ‘when he contended with his foes at LI. W.’—Plup. sg. 3. amucsei 1044.

(1) clywaf ‘I hear’: 3rd sg. pres. ind. clyw 54; v.n. Ml. W. clybot  474, clywet G.Y.C. (anno 1282)  1417, Mn. W. clywed.

Perf. sg. 1. cigleu 36, 83 =  23, 60,  129,  33; ciglef  130, 168,  408, 423 =  262, 274,  46, 48; sg. 3. cigleu 144 =  214,  50,  10, 11, etc. The rest of the tense is made up of aor. forms: sg. 2. clyweist 230,  168; pl. 3. clywssont  33,  22; impers. clywysbwyt Ỻ.A. 117, clywspwyt 246.

In Early Mn. W. the 1st sg. ciglef survived in poetry, see ex., and I.G. 338. But the ordinary Mn. form is clywais D.G. 81. Similarly the 3rd sg. cigleu is replaced by clywodd Luc xiv 15; thus the tense became a regular aor. There is also a Late Ml. and Mn. 3rd sg. clỿbu 362, Ex. ii 15, and impers. clybū́w͡yd Matt. ii 18 beside clyw͡yd Ps. Ixxvii 18.
 * Doe ym mherigl y ciglef
 * Ynglyn aur angel o nef.—D.G. 124.

‘Yesterday in danger I heard the golden englyn of an angel from heaven.’

In Early Mn. W. a 2nd sg. impv. degle is found, e.g. G.Gl. Rh