wythnos diwethaf

Welsh

Phrase

wythnos diwethaf

  1. last week

Usage notes

  • Although wythnos is a feminine noun, the expected soft mutation of diwethaf is absent because of an old rule (now inoperative) that disallowed /ð/ after another dental consonant. Compare also nos da f (“goodnight”) with the same fossilized non-mutation.[1]

References

  1. ^ Morris Jones, John (1913), A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 111 vii (2), page 186
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