Atkinson — On the Suhjunctive Mood in Welsh. 477 



ioypych, 276, 7; o'rhynn goreu a gaffer, 277, 21 ; 291, 3. But we have 

 the verb in the Indicative mood when the statement is presented as a 

 matter of fact. Thus in the sentence : ' none can contest unless he 

 have with him the lady he loves best,' the verb is in the Subjunctive ; 

 whereas in the sentence : ' he then begs the lady he loves best to take the 

 hawk,' the verb is in the Indicative, erchi y'r wreic vwyhaf a gar 

 kymryt y llamhystaen, 253, 19 ; cf. 11, 12 ; 13, 5 ; 80, 13, 16 &c ; 

 152, 6 ; 227, 16 ; 228, 20 ; 233, 12 ; 240, i ; 287, 21. 



So also when the antecedent is qualified by un, ' one,' ' single,' cf. 

 3, 1 8 un dyrnawt a rodycli di idaw, ' the one single [not a second'\ 

 stroke which thou givest him.' 



The superlative adjective may be expressed by the paraphrastic 

 construction with : brie y coet ac a vo well yn y fforest, ' the 

 branches such as are best in the forest,' 241, 10. 



3. The Subjunctive is the mood used where the relative clause 

 contains a qualification which limits the universality of the negative 

 in the case of a negated antecedent, " there is nobody who knows 

 that," cf. hyt na bo gwas ... a wypo, (' I will arrange) so that there 

 shall be no servant who knows that &c.,' 3, 10 ; na bo gwr a wypo, 

 3, 23 ; nyt oes yndi neb ny'th adnapo, ' there is no one in it who will 

 not recognise thee,' 3, y ; ny thebygaf o'r niuer hwnn oil neb nyt 

 adnappo vot y mab yn uab y P., ' I do not think that there is anyone 

 of all this company who does not recognise that the boy is P.'s son,' 

 24, 2 ; nyt oes neb . . . nj lo diheu gantaw hynny, 24, 3 ; nyt oes itt a 

 wnelych namyn kyrchu dy longeu, ' there is nothing thou shouldst do 

 but to ' &c., 29, 12 ; nyt oes neb a wypo, 35, z ; nyt oes lestyr a dalyo 

 y llyn, 121, z ; nyt oes yn y byt ae ty7iho oe penn namyn 0., 'none 

 but 0.,' 122, 27 ; n.o. lestyr a. gattwo gwres y llynn, 123, 10; n.o. yn 

 y byt crib • . . y galler gwrteith vyg gwallt, 123, 20 ; n.o. kyullyuan 

 a, dalyo dCTTidiW, 123,25. 133, 10; n.o. torch a dalhyo y gynllyuan, 



123, 27 ; n.o. . . . kynyd a digono k. 124, i ; a dalhyo, a dycho, 



124, 13, 18, 26 ; ny wypo, 126, 7 ; ny edir neb idi namyn a dycho y 

 gerd gantaw, 126, 11, 17 ; ny wnn i neb ae gwypo, 'I do not know 

 anybody who knows it,' 131, 2 ; nat oes deuwr yn y byt ny chaffo eu 

 Uwyth yn y ffonn, 166, 13 ; ny byd un dalen ar y prenn ny darffo y'r 

 gawat eu dwyn, 168, i ; nyt oes ar y helw namyn yr unty hwnn ny's 

 Tj-dyclco, 184, 26 ; nyt wyt un-enryded di ac y dylyych ymdidan a'm 

 arglwyd i, 249, 10; nyt oes . . . morwyn yd ymardelwych ohonei, 

 253, 5 ; na at neb . . . namyn ti a'th disgyblon ae medeginyaetho, 

 261, 16; na gweisson na morwynyon a'th wassannaetho, 278, 11; 

 na daw marchawc . . . na mynno ef ymwelet ac ef, 281, x. 



