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376 metha gan ‘fails’, synna ar ‘is astonished’:

i. The verb genir ‘is born’ is used in the impersonal only; ind. pres. (and fut.) genir, impf. genid, aor. ganed, also Late Mn. W. ganwyd, plup. Ml. ganadoeẟ, ganydoeẟ, ganyssit, Mn. ganasid; subj. pres. ganer; v.n. geni.

i. Ml. W. heb yr, heb y, or heb ‘says, said’ is used for all persons and numbers; the yr or y is not the definite article, as it occurs not only before proper names, but before pronouns. The Mn. W. forms corresponding to the above are ebr, ebe, eb. In Recent W. the form ebe (with ‑e for Ml. y § 16 iv (2)) is sometimes wrongly written ebai, the ‑e being mistaken for a dialectal reduction of the impf. ending ‑ai § 6 iii.

Oes, arglwyẟ, heb yr ynteu 386 ‘Yes, lord, said he’; heb yr ef ib. ‘said he’; heb yr wynt do. 185 ‘said they’; heb yr Arthur do. 386 ‘said A.’; heb y mi do. 46 ‘said I’; heb y pawb do. 36 ‘said every-