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372 315; both form and meaning seem to have been influenced by dyre (dial. dere) ‘come!’


 * Degle’n nes, dwg i liw nyf
 * Ddeg annerch oddi gennyf.—D.G. 218.

‘Lend nearer ear! bring to [her of] the colour of snow ten greetings from me.’

clywaf, see § 76 v (2).—cigleu § 182 i; the form ciglef is the result of adding 1st sg. ‑f to cigleu (euf > ef); it tends in late. to replace the latter; thus cigleu 144 = ciglef  214. The cynghanedd in the example shows that the vowel of the reduplicator is i (as it is generally written), and not y; hence we must assume original *k̑ū‑. The 1st sg. was most used, and prob. gives the form cigleu.—clybot is probably for *clyw-bot, cf. adnabot § 191 iv (3).

goẟiweẟaf' ‘I overtake’: v.n. goẟiwes § 203 iii (7) so in Mn. W., sometimes re-formed in Late W. as goddiweddyd.—Perf. sg. 3. goẟiwawẟ, see § 182 iii.

i. (1) canaf ‘I sing’: 3rd sg. pres. ind. can 13 ≡ Mn. W. cân; v.n, canu.—Aor. sg. 1. keint, keintum, 2. ceuntost, 3. cant § 175 iii, § 181 vii (1), impers. canpwyt § 182 iv (4); there are no corresponding forms in the pl. The t‑aor. was already superseded in Late Ml. W.; thus sg. 3. canawẟ Ỻ.A. 117, Mn. W. canodd; but cant survived in the phrase X. a’i cant ‘[it was] X. who sang it’, ascribing a poem to its author, and is often miswritten cânt by late copyists § 175 iii (1).

gwanaf ‘I wound’ is similar. Aor. sg. 1. gweint, 3. gwant § 175 iii; Mn. W. gwenais, gwanodd.

(1) cymeraf ‘I take’, differaf ‘I protect’: 3rd sg. pres. ind. cymer, differ; v.n. kymryt 8, 9, diffryt  132, 141.—Aor. sg. 3. kymerth, differth, kemirth (≡ kỿmɥrth) i 126, diffyrth  139, § 175 iii (1). Beside these, forms in ‑w͡ys, ‑ws occur in Ml. W., as kemerrws § 175 i (5), differwys G.B. 1191. But cymerth survives in biblical W., e. g. Act. xvi 33, beside the usual Late Mn. W. cymerodd 318, Matt, xiii 31.

The v.n. cymryt, Mn. W. cymryd 335, cam-gymryd M.K. [137], has been re-formed as cymeryd; but the prevailing form in the spoken lang. is cỿ́mrɥd Ceiriog 110 (or cỿ́m’ɥd). The translators of the bible adopted cymmeryd, evidently thinking that it was more