Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ thesaurus. A Welsh and English dictionary, wherein the Welsh words are often exemplified by select quotations from celebrated ancient authors; and many of them etymologized, and compared with the Oriental and other languages ... adorned with many valuable British antiquities, to elucidate the meaning of obscure words. To which are annexed, a Welsh and English botanology, and a large collection of Welsh proverbs. And to the whole is prefixed, a compendious Welsh grammar, with the rules in English; also, to which are added, The rules of Welsh poetry / By the late Rev. Thomas Richards, Coychurch.
- Thomas Richards of Coychurch
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ thesaurus. A Welsh and English dictionary, wherein the Welsh words are often exemplified by select quotations from celebrated ancient authors; and many of them etymologized, and compared with the Oriental and other languages ... adorned with many valuable British antiquities, to elucidate the meaning of obscure words. To which are annexed, a Welsh and English botanology, and a large collection of Welsh proverbs. And to the whole is prefixed, a compendious Welsh grammar, with the rules in English; also, to which are added, The rules of Welsh poetry / By the late Rev. Thomas Richards, Coychurch. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![îf the quesíion be in íbe preterperfect tense, and tlie empliasis be in tlie vefb, tbe answer is made, if affirmative, by do', if negati^e, by na ddo. Or otherwise, by repeating tbe verb, and .puttin^ it in the proper person, if an affirmative answer; bnt, if negative, by repeating the verb, and putting 7ia before it; as, a gerais dihyn? cerais, or do ; or negatively, na ddo, or na cherais. But if the emphasis be in some other words, the question is made by ai, and the answer is raade affirmatively by 'ie, yes; or negatìvely byîmr^e, no; as, ai hwn a gesaist ? le, or Nage. {Sÿ When a question is ashed in tbe future tense, the answer is raade by the same tense, or by tbe future gwnaf, I will do ; as, a geri di ? caraf, or gwnaf. Absolute sentences are made by a conjunction and the infinitive raood of the verb; as, a'r brenhin yn dyfod, the hing coming, or whilst the Idng carae. Or the infi- nitive being understood; as, a ni yno. CHAP. XXIX. OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF ARTICLES. YIs ever pìaced before words beginning with consonants; and before w, when g is throwm away from the word, asbeing feminine, as y wraig; and sometimes be- fore words beginning withî'; as, y iaith. Yr is never put entire but before such words as begin with vowels. These Articles restrain or determine the sense of the word they are put before, to some particular; in the same manner as the definite article the in English. When words of tbe mascuîine gender have an article set before thera, their radical letters are not cbanged ; as, y gwr, y brenhin; but if they be feminines, their initials are changed into their soft; as, y frenhines, y wraig. When a Welsh Verb, Preposition, or other particle, ending with a vowe], come before a substantive or adjective beginning with a consonantas well as vowe], and if the be sound in the English between them ; then is V of yr, added to those words ending with vowels; and the substantives or adjectives make no change of their radical initials, if masculines; but change thera into their soft, if feminines, (so those feminines begin not with Ll or Rh); as, cospi’r bradwr; cospi’r anfadwr; y tâd a’r fam ; na’r tâd na’r fara ; trwy’r tad a thrwy’r fam; o’r tad ac o’r fam ; i’r tad ac i’r fam ; cospi’rtad a chospi’r fam ; y grasol dad a’r drugarogfam; y drugarogfam a’r grasoldad; myfi yw (or ydyw’r) dyn. Proper Names have not tbe Artìcle set before them, because they do of them- selves individually or particularly distinguish the things or persons of which one speaks; and they being thus particularly distinguished need not any more par- ticular’distinction. And for this reason the word ŵíîo, sìgnifying the Supreme Being, has no articlebefore it, except where He is distinguished from the false gods of the’heathen, as in Acts 17. 24. Y Duw a wnaeth y byd a phob peth sydd yn- ddo, &c, So likewise the names of countries, cities, rivers. &c. have no articles beforethem. Yet the ancients commonly set an article before proper names, as, Y Cynon, y Giwn. An Article is not put divers thi ngs. before the former of two substantives, when they betoken CHAP. XXX. OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF ADYERBS A AN Adverb of asking and of affirming, makes the word following it cbange iís radical initial into its sofí, as, A fu ddyn dryminach ei fryd? Duw a ddywedodd. Na, ni, o na, before words beginning with h, d, g, ll, rh, make the initials of those words soft, as, Na thystia, na ddywaid, na âd, nawna, na ladd, na rodia. Except Verbs Substantives, whichare used, sometiraes with a radical, sometimes with a soft initial; as, Dywedodd na byddem gwaetli. Na fydd ymrysongar. Ni beiddiaf dy rybuddiaw, D. G.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29337392_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
