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flected forms, which are used when the object is other than a personal pronoun.
(2) The simple form of every conjugable prep. causes the soft mutation of the initial of a following noun; except er, rhag and rhwng which cause the radical; yn which causes the nasal, rad. or soft, according to its function; and uwch, is which cause the rad. except in uwchláw, isláw, uwchbén.
iii. (1) The 2nd sg. ending is Ml. W. ‑t ≡ ‑d, and often appears as ‑d in Early Mn. W., e.g. arnad D.G. 2, gennyd/byd do. 3, atad do. 42, hebod do. 513; but like the ‑d of the 2nd sg. impf. ind. it became ‑t in Late Mn. W., see § 174 i.
(2) The 3rd pl. ending is in Early Ml. W. rarely ‑u, ‑uẟ, later and usually ‑unt formed after the 3rd pl. of verbs. In Late Mn. mss. and books this is misspelt ‑ynt, with rare exceptions, e.g. G.J. Hyff. Gynnwys (1749). The final ‑t is frequently dropped in poetry, as in verbs; and in the spoken lang. is always dropped; see § 106 iii (2).
iv. There are three conjugations of prepositions, distinguished by the vowel of the 1st and 2nd pers. endings; thus for the 1st sg., i. ‑af, ii. ‑of, iii. ‑yf.
§ 209. First Conjugation. i. To this belong ar ‘upon’; at ‘to’; o dan ‘under’; o ‘from’, with the stem ohan- (ohon‑), which does not occur uninflected; and am ‘about’ with the stem amdan‑,
ii. (1) ar ‘upon’ may be taken as an example of the conjugation:
| Ml. W. | Mn. W. | ||||||||||||
| sg. | pl. | sg. | pl. | ||||||||||
| 1. | arnaf | 1. | arn-am, ‑ann | 1. | árnaf | 1. | árnom | ||||||
| 2. | arnat | 2. | arnawch | 2. | árnad, ‑t | 2. | árnoch | ||||||
| 3. | m. | arnaw | 3. | (arnaẟu) | 3. | m. | árno | 3. | árn-unt | ||||
| f. | arnei | arnaẟuẟ | f. | árnai | ‑ynt | ||||||||
| erni | arnaẟunt | árni | |||||||||||
| arnu | |||||||||||||
| arnunt | adv. árnodd | ||||||||||||
The 3rd sg. f. ‑ai occurs in Early Mn. verse, though rarely: arnai D.G. 85, attai do. 195, danai do. 210, ohonai I.G. 390. The 3rd pl. in ‑addunt survived in poetry in onaddunt, see vi;
