the steward to whom belong…’; e gur (≡ y gŵr) pyeu do. 82; Hywel piau (2) above; Mi piau cyngor … mi piau nerth Diar. viii 14 (1620). In the spoken lang. both p- and b- are heard; the former prevails in N.W.
(5) As pieu seemed to be a verb meaning ‘owns’ though without a subjective rel., it is sometimes found so used with an accusative rel., as castell Kaer Vyrẟin yr hwn a bie(u) y brenhin r.b.b. 297 ‘the castle of Carmarthen which the king owns’; y castell fry a pieu Belial b.cw. 10; more rarely with subjective rel., ni ae pieifyẟwn c.m. 42. Still rarer are re-formations like ti biy c.m. 14.
iii. pi- cannot come from *qu̯ū(i) < *qu̯ōi the dat. of *qu̯o‑, since qu̯ became k in Kelt, before u; it is probable therefore that pi- comes from *qu̯ī < *qu̯iī < *qu̯ii̯ei: Oscan piei dative of the stem-form *qu̯i- § 163 vi.
Af, Gwnaf, Deuaf.
§ 193. i. af ‘I go’ and gw̯naf ‘I make, do’ are conjugated alike in Mn. W. except in the impv.; deuaf ‘I come’ is analogous, but has different and varying vowels in its stems. In the earlier periods each of the verbs has forms peculiar to itself. In the following tables Mn. W. forms are given in brackets, marked as in § 185.
ii. af ‘I go’.
| Indicative Mood. Present. | |||
| sg. | pl. | ||
| 1. | af (ā́f) | 1. | awn (áwn) |
| 2. | ey (éi, ái) | 2. | ewch (éwch) |
| 3. | a, e-yt (ā́) | 3. | ant (ā́nt) |
| Impers. eir (éir, áir) | |||
| Imperfect. | |||
| 1. | awn (áwn) | 1. | aem (ā́em) |
| 2. | aut (ā́ut) | 2. | (ā́ech) |
| 3. | aei, aey, ai (ā́i, ae) | 3. | eynt (ā́ent) |
| Impers. eit (éid, áid) | |||
