- Llaw Rys nid llai a roesoeẟ.—H.D., p 99/482.
‘The hand of Rhys has given no less.’ Other Late Ml. forms are r͑oẟassoeẟ, r͑ossoeẟ, Cymmrodor ix 77. Gwent rysoeddyd h.g. 30.
iv. On the origin of rhoddaf, see § 179 ii.
§ 187. i. arhoaf w.m. 17 ‘I wait’, contr. arhṓf, is conjugated like tro-af, trṓf, except that the v.n. is arhos w.m. 17, Mn. W. aros; thus Mn. W. ind. pres. sg. 1. arhṓf, 2. arhói, 3. éry; pl. 1. arhówn, 2. arhówch, 3. arhṓnt; impv. sg. 2. áro ‘stay!’ Ml. W. arho w.m. 17, aro do. 125; etc.
- Â gwaew hir gwae a’i héry.—I.H.S. 26.
‘Woe to him who awaits him with a long spear.’
- Neidia goruwch hen adwy
- I’r maes, ac nac aro mwy.—D.G. 30.
‘Jump over an old gap into the field, and stay no longer.’
- Nid arhṓn’ hwy draean hyn.—I.F., m. 148/721.
‘They will not remain one third of this [time].’
ii. The above conjugation persisted well into the Late Mn. period, e.g. arhoent b.cw. 23, arhowch do. 102; but in the late 15th cent, a new formation sprang up in which the v.n. aros is substituted for the stem aro‑, giving arhosaf, etc. The earliest examples I have noted are in I.F.
- Od ymddengys Rhys arhosaf.—I.F., m 148/301.
‘If Rhys appears, I will stay.’ So Arhoswch farn, rhoesoch fedd I.F. p 83/33, pan arhoser do. P 100/79.
iii. The only possible original of the ‑s of aros is either ‑d‑t- or ‑s‑t- (the v.n. suffix being *‑tu‑). The latter would imply ‑os- for the orig. stem; but where ‑s- came between vowels in Brit., the vowel before it was either lost, or contracted with the following vowel in Brit. itself, so that we could not have arho-af. We must therefore assume that ‑ẟ- has disappeared in this word as in rho-af (the ẟ of rhoẟaf being more or less artificial); hence arho-af for *ar-hoẟ-af < *ari-sod‑, √sed- ‘sit’; and aros < *ari-soss- < *pₑri-sod-tu- ‘sit before’; § 63 ii, § 110 iv (2).
§ 188. i. (1) caffaf ‘I shall get’ has stem kaff‑, kah- or ka- in Ml. W., and ca- in Mn. W. with ‑ff- in 3rd sg. pres. ind. and in subj.; and is conjugated regularly, except in the aor. The forms that occur are as follows.
