i’m hoed D.G. 498. In Late Mn. W. the h- is always used, and often written superfluously after eich, ’ch.
iii. Affixed pronouns are substantive and auxiliary.
(1) Substantive affixed pronouns are used in the accusative after verbs as sole objects; they are identical with the independent pronouns simple, reduplicated and conjunctive, with the initials of the 1st and 2nd sg. softened.
They occur where there is no preverb to support an infixed pronoun, as when the vb. is impv.; where the preverb ends in a consonant, as pan, etc.; and in some other cases where there is no infixed pronoun; for the details see Syntax.
dygwch vi oẟyma w.m. 8 ‘bear me hence’; hualwyd fi D.G. 47 ‘I have been shackled’; clyw fyfy do. 100 ‘hear me’; pann welsant ef Ỻ.A. 114 ‘when they saw him’; ny roẟassit hi do. 122 ‘she had not been given’. They often follow auxiliary affixed pronouns, as Pan geissych di vyvi r.m. 224 ‘when thou seekest me’.
They are also used in the dative after interjections, as gwae fi! ‘vae mihi!’
(2) Auxiliary affixed pronouns serve as extensions of other pronominal elements; they are appended to words which already have either personal endings, or prefixed or infixed pronouns. The form of the 1st sg. is i, in Early Ml. W. ‑e (≡ ɥ); in Late Mn. W. it is written fi after ‑f, but this is an error, though sometimes found in Ml. W.; the 2nd sg. is di, after ‑t ti, Early Ml. ‑de; 3rd sg. m. ef, efo, f. hi; pl. 1. ni, Early Ml. ‑ne, 2. chwi, 3. wy, wynt, later hwy, hwynt. There are also conjunctive forms, innau, dithau, etc.
Supplementing (a) the personal form of a verb: gueleis-e b.b. 71 ‘I saw’, arẟuireav-e do. 36 ‘I extol’; pan roddais i serch D.G. 134 ‘when I set [my] affection’, andau-de b.b. 61 ‘listen thou’, Beth a glywaist ti? D.G. 335 ‘what didst thou hear?’ y dêl hi § 136 iii, etc.
(b) the personal ending of a preposition: irof-e b.b. 23 ‘for me’, arnat ti D.G. 136 ‘on thee’, iẟaw ef w.m. 5 ‘to him’, etc.
(c) a prefixed or infixed pronoun, gen., acc. or dat.: wi-llav-e b.b. 50 (≡ vỿ-llaw-ɥ) ‘my hand’, f’enaid i D.G. 148 ‘my soul’; am creuys-e b.b. 82 ‘who created me’; nym daw-e do. 62 ‘there comes not to me’; dyn ni ’m cred i D.G. 173 ‘a woman who does not believe me’.
- Ni cheisiwn nef na’i threvi
- Be gwypwn nas kai hwnn hi.—H.S., p 54/i/257 r.
‘I would not seek heaven and its abodes if I knew that he would not attain it.’
