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Original Articles

Initial Mutation of Loanwords in Welsh

Pages 205-213 | Published online: 04 Dec 2015

  • Holger Pedersen, Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (Göttingen, 1909–13) 1.437.
  • E.g. in monosyllables and in originally diphthnogal finals.
  • T. H. Parry-Williams, The English Element In Welsh (Cymmrodorion Record Series, No. x, London, 1923).
  • Henry Lewis, Yr Elfen Ladin yn yr Iaith Gymraeg (Cardiff, 1943).
  • R. A. Fowkes, English Idiom in Modern Welsh, Word 1.239–48 (1945).
  • Examples 1, 10, 11 and 23 are from T. Rowland Hughes, Y Cychwyn (Aberystwyth, 1947); 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 17, 18 and 19, from W. Ambrose Bebb, Crwydro'r Cyfandir (Wrexham, 1936); 3 and 21, from R. Bryn Williams, Eluned Morgan, Bywgraffiad a Detholiad (Llandysul, 1948); and 4, 12, 15, 16, 20, 22 and 24, from Owen M. Edwards, Tro yn yr Eidal (Wrexham, 1921, etc.)
  • One notable exception is E. Anwyl, in his Welsh Grammar for Schools (London, 1898–99), where these sounds are described as ‘aspirate mutations.’
  • Parry-Williams, op. cit. 15.
  • J. Bodvan Anwyl (ed.), Spurrell's Welsh-English Dictionary (12th ed., Carmarthen, 1934) 185 s.v. falant.
  • Griffith Roberts, Dosparth Byrr ar y rhann gyntaf i ramadeg Cymraeg (Milan, 1567), facsimile reprint issued as supplement to the Revue Celtique (Paris, 1883); also G. J. Williams, Gramadeg Cymraeg gan Gruffydd Robert (Cardiff, 1939).
  • John Morris-Jones, A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative (Oxford, 1913) p. v.
  • Op. cit. 59.
  • Pedersen, 1.431.

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