The suff. ‑awt is the past part. pass, in ‑to- of ā-stems; thus *‑ā́-to‑s > ‑awt. Cf. barvawt b.t. 21 ‘bearded’ < Lat. barbātus;—‑edig is an extension in *‑ī-ko- of this; thus, *‑ā-tī́ko‑s > ‑edig.—‑aid § 153 (2).
‑adwy is the fut. pass. part. in *‑teu̯i̯ó‑; the ‑a- before it may be from unacc. ā or from ə; thus ofnadwy < *obna‑tou̯i̯ós § 76 v (4): Skr. kar-tavyà‑ḥ ‘faciendus’;—‑ediw is a variant of this due to metath. § 78 iv (1). The rhyme (glyw) r.p. 1041 shows that the ‑iw is for ‑yw after the dental § 77 v.—The element *‑teu̯- seems to have been used also with suff. ‑no- to form verbal adjs., which mostly became nouns in W.: credadun ‘believing’ D.G. 54, ‘credible’ m.a. i 563b, usually ‘believer’ < Brit. *kreta-tou-no‑;—amheuthun ‘unaccustomed fare, treat’, adj. ‘unwonted’, for *am-(w)heithun § 77 viii < *m̥bi-su̯ek-tou-no‑: chweith ‘taste’ § 108 iv (2), pref. ‘different’ § 156 i (4) (d), hence ‘change of diet’;—yspardun s.g. 2 ‘spur’: yspar § 96 iv (1).—Participles in ‑to- formed from cons. stems survive as nouns: talaith ‘frontlet, crown’, Ml. W. talheith b.b. 106 < *talo-sektā ‘forehead-attachment’, √seꬶu̯‑: Skr. sájati ‘attaches’, Lith. segù ‘I fasten, attach’, saktìs ‘buckle’.
Compound Verbs.
§ 207. i. The prefixes compounded with verbs are mostly the same as those compounded with nouns and adjectives; see § 156.
ii. A verb may also be compounded with a noun or adj.; as efe a lwyr-lanhâ ei lawr dyrnu Matt. iii 12; see § 45 iii. The verb forms the second element, and has its initial softened, like the second element of a noun-compound. The initial of the first element becomes that of the compound verb, and is softened after the rel. a, remains rad. after the rel. y, etc., like the initial of a verb.
Prepositions
§ 208. i. Personal pronouns forming objects of prepositions in Brit. and Goidelic came to be agglutinated to the prepositions, and ultimately developed into mere inflexions. The “conjugation” so formed was very similar in W. to that of the verb, and was influenced in its later development by verbal forms.
ii. (1) Inflected prepositions have two forms, m. and f. of the 3rd sg., and one for each of the other persons sg. and pl. Many have in addition an adverbial form; and all preserve their unin-
