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(11) heb amlaw R.M. 179 'besides, in addition to', hebldw or heb law Matt, xv 38, rarely amlaw GRE. 327 id.

Haw ' hand ' in the sense of ' side ' ; heb law ' out-side ', am law 1 be-side ' ; heb i Haw D.G. 148 ' beside her '.

(12) o ran 'on account of, e.g. W.IL. 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 BE. iv 427 ' near her '. is oil ' behind ' ; is y gil R.M. 151 ' behind him '.

cyf-yl : ym-yl ' edge ' 101 iv (2). cil 59 vi.

(14) ach law 214 i ; gerllaw, ger Haw do. ii ; gerbron, ger bron ib. ; drachefn do. iii, trachefpn y bor W.M.L. 32 ' behind the door ' ; ar draws 210 x (6) ; ymrdn c.c. 34 ' on the point of, nearly ', in Late Mn. W. bron.

iv. (1) Ml. W. mal, ml, Mn. W. mal, fal, fel '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 el 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 Dd&l,
Kywiog araf ragordl. 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 B.P. 1403 ' like him ', fel myfi, etc., or by demonstratives as fel hyn. (e}fel hyn (Corn, evel henn) though still surviving by re- formation, became (e)fell hyn, whence efelly y felly, felly 'so', 110 v (2). In Gweiit fell hyn became llyn, and subsequently yn llyn with adverbial yn, BAB. i 376, 378.

Ni fwriadwn fawr rodiaw
A gwr fell hyn gar fy Haw. 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 1 '

(3) val, O.W. amal (: Ir. amal) is a weak form of hafal < *8 e m e l-

94 i ; Ml. W. mal may represent an early elision of the first

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