Talk:Welsh morphology

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[edit] References and further reading

A whole bucketload of references and further reading that can be added to this article can be found here. Uncle G 19:05, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Limited soft mutation

I've added some information about the limited version of the soft mutation, which does not mutate "rh" or "ll", and have given instances where it occurs accordingly. However, by doing this I have had to divide the list of contexts in which the soft mutation occurs into a list for the limited version and a list for the full version. As a result, I put all the contexts of the limited soft mutation that I know of into that list, but put the remainder in the list for the full soft mutation: this means that some of the entries for the full list may in fact belong to the limited list, because I'm not sure that all the entries on the full list belong there for certain. Can anyone help? Pobbie Rarr 21:51, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Verb doubts

I have a little Welsh dictionary (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary) whose verb appendix gives totally different conjugations of "bod", "cael", "mynd" and other verbs. For example:

Bod: present: wyf(ydwyf), wyt(ydwyt), mae/yw/oes, ^ym(ydym), ych(ydych), ^ynt(ydynt) imperfect: oeddwn, oeddit, oedd, oeddem, oeddech, oeddynt future: byddaf, byddi, bydd, byddwn, byddwch, byddant etc.

Cael: present: caf, cei, caiff, cawn, cewch, cânt, etc.

Mynd: present: af, ei, â, awn, ewch, ânt etc.

What are these? Dialectal variations? Why are they important enough to be the only forms in the dictionary? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cpom (talk • contribs) 01:22, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

The forms in your dictionary are the literary forms, while the forms on this page are the spoken forms. Ultimately I'd like to see the complete conjugations of both the literary language and the spoken language given, although that may be more appropriate for b:Welsh than for this page. —Angr 06:22, 1 November 2006 (UTC)