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§ 212 Lat. red-, re- < Ital. *ured- < Ar, *uret- ; cf. Lat. versus ' against ', part, of verto : Vuer- 'turn'. wrthyf< *uerto-mi, etc. The 3rd sg. wrthaw < *wrth-$aw, the -8- merged in the -th-} so for the f. and pi.

212. i. The prep, i 'to', Ml. W. y, O.W. di is inflected anomalously ; the 1st sg. is qm, or with the affixed pron. qmi or ym?/ ; for y-, i- is common in Ml. W., and became the usual form in Mn. W. The inflexion is as follows :

pi. I. iinn, qnni, ^nnif, in, inni 1. qm, ymi, ?/mq, im, imi 2. ytt, iftti ytty, itt, itti 3. m. ibaw, Mn. iddo f. ibi, Mn. idcli 2. qwch, qchwi, ychwif, iwch, ichwi 3. ubu, nbub, ubunt, Late Mn. iddynt

Examples: ym IL.A. 98, 1. 4, ymi W.M. 20, 22, im do. 46 ; ytt IL.A. 95, ytti B.M. 5, yti W.M. 4, itt do. 3, 8, 9, it do. 20, itti ib. ; yni do. 29, inni do. 139, ychwi B.M. 7, tw?c^ c^toi W.M. n, ywch do. 50, w<w< ( = w8w8) B.B. 49-50, w8w B.T. 74; u8unt 77 viii; t'Saw, z'8i passim. The Late Mn. W. spelling iddynt is artificial; see 77 viii.

Forms with y survive in Early Mn. verse, in which the rhymes show that the sound of the y is if.


 * Dafydd ap Gwili/m, nmti
 * Y bu fraw am na bai fn(. G.Gr. (m. D.G.) F.N. i.

' Dafydd ap Gwilym to me there was dismay because he was no longer [alive] there.'


 * Arglwydd gwtfnn, nid oes qnni
 * Un tad oil onid tydi. M.R., p 93/56.

' Holy Lord, there is to us no father at all but Thee.'


 * Ni all angel penfelyn
 * Na llu o saint ddim lies qn. G.I.1L., F. 8, M 130/4708.

' No golden-haired angel or host of saints can [do] us any good.'

iii. The affixed pron. is often accented ; in that case it is usually written separately, i mi, i (i, etc., Ml. W. y mi W.M. 8. As inni has undoubtedly a double n the form yni W.M. ao must mean yni (the double consonant being simplified before the accent 27 ii).
 * Gwell i ml golli 'mflwyd
 * Na chan boen nychu 'n y byd. T.A., A 14866/201.

' It is better for me to lose my life than in pain to pine in the world.' Earely in poetry i myfi D.G. 53, i nyni H.S. 22, etc.; thus: