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416 argysswrw ar llwrw yr lie do. do. 292 ' go without fear forward to the place '.

llwrw : Corn, lerch ' track ', war lerch ' after ', Bret, lerc'h ' track ', Gael, lorg ' track ', Ir. Ivrg ; all < Kelt. *lorg- < *plorg- dissim. for *pro-rg-,Vreg- 193 x (8) : Lat. pergo, perrexi < *per-reg- ; etc.

parth, parthed 'towards, as regards'; compos, o bartfi, o barthret G.C. 108 'as regards' ; imparthred B.B. 26 'in the region of ; parth is oftenest followed by a 216 ii (2).

plith ' in the midst of ; compos, ymhlilh ' among ', yn en plith 'among them', o With 'out of the midst of, d'ch plith 'from your midst', iWith 'into tbe midst of, iw plith 'into their midst ', plith draphlith 47 iii.

Many composite nominal prepositions have no corresponding simple form (i e. the noun alone is not used as a prep.). All are followed by the [rad.]. The most important are

mewn, Ml. W. y mywn, myuon * in ' (though apparently a simple form, myicn is a mere phonetic reduction of ymywn} ; o fewn ' within ' ; with inf. pron. i'w mewn hi Num. v 24 ; och meion Luc xvii 21 ; also in Mn. W. i fewn y Uys Marc xv 16 ; adv. i meicn^ oddimeicn.

(y)mywn ' in the middle of ' has come to be used for ' in ' before indefinite, yn being restricted to definite, objects ; thus ymywn ty W.M. 53 ' in a house \ yn y ty do. 54 ' in the house ' ; in Ml. and Early Mn. W. mywn, mewn is sometimes used before the latter.

i < *ens : Gk. ets < evs < *en ( in ' + -s as in *eks. i mewn, ymywn = Ir. inmedon, immedon ; Ir. medon ' middle '. The W. form has lost 8 110 iv (2), and was therefore orig. disyllabic *my\wn < *mywn, which most probably represents *my8-wyn 78 i (2). Both this and Ir. medon would be regular from Kelt. *mediokno : Lat. mediocris, spv. medioxtmus. If this equation is right, mediocris can hardly be ' *middle-hill ' (: ocris, Sommer 488, Walde s.v.) but may be an adj. in -ri- (cf. dcri-, sacri-) from *medioque formed from medio- like proj)e (for *proqiie) from pro, as the spv. medioximus beside proximu* suggests. The Kelt, would be a noun in -no- from the same (It.-Kelt.) extd. stem. Orig. stem *medh(i)io- : Skr. mddhya-h, Gk. /i(TO-S.