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(11) heb amlaw r.m. 179 ‘besides, in addition to’, hebláw or heb law Matt. xv 38, rarely amlaw gre. 327 id.
llaw ‘hand’ in the sense of ‘side’; heb law ‘out-side’, am law ‘be-side’; heb i llaw D.G. 148 ‘beside her’.
(12) o ran ‘on account of’, e.g. W.Ỻ. 173; o’m rhan i ‘for my part’, etc.; o waith ‘because of’.
rhan ‘share, part’, § 63 vii (2). gwaith ‘deed’ § 193 x (4).
(13) ynghyfyl s.g. 35 ‘near’, ar gyfyl id.; yn i chyfyl br. iv 427 ‘near her’. is cil ‘behind’; is ẏ gil r.m. 151 ‘behind him’.
cyf-yl: ym‑yl ‘edge’ § 101 iv (2). cil § 59 vi.
(14) ach law § 214 i; gerlláw, ger llaw do. ii; gerbrŏ́n, ger bron ib.; drachefn do. iii, trachefɏn y ẟor w.m.l. 32 ‘behind the door’; ar draws § 210 x (6); ymrón c.c. 34 ‘on the point of, nearly’, in Late Mn. W. bron.
iv. (1) Ml. W. mal, val, Mn. W. mal, fal, fĕl ‘like’, and Ml. W. megys, Mn. W. megys, megis ‘like’, are followed by a noun, a verbal noun, or a noun-clause introduced by y. They generally stand in an oblique case, and are therefore prepositional. But sometimes they qualify nouns, as
- Pan êl y gwallt hir-felyn
- A’i frig fal y caprig gwyn.—D.G. 441.
Lit. ‘When the long yellow hair goes with its tips like white cambric’.
- Y ddyn fegis Gwen o’r Ddôl,
- Rywiog araf ragorol.—D.G. 379.
‘The woman like Gwen of the Dale, gentle, patient, peerless.’
(2) fel and megis may be followed by independent pers. pronouns, as mal ef r.p. 1403 ‘like him’, fel myfi, etc., or by demonstratives as fel hyn. (e)fel hyn (Corn. evel henn) though still surviving by reformation, became (e)fell hyn, whence efélly yfélly, felly ‘so’, § 110 v (2). In Gwent fell hýn became llýn, and subsequently yn llyn with adverbial yn, bar. i 376, 378.
- Ni fwriadwn fawr rodiaw
- A gŵr fell hýn gar fy llaw.—T.A., c. i 338.
‘I did not intend much to roam with a man like this near me.’ ac evelly a.l. i 6 ‘and similarly’; Ay yvelly y gwnaethant wy? w.m. 41 ‘is it so that they did?’
(3) val, O.W. amal (: Ir. amal) is a weak form of hafal < *sₑmₑl- § 94 i; Ml. W. mal may represent an early elision of the firste e 2
