From ceithiw (“captivity”) + -o under the influence of caeth (“captive”).
caethiwo (first-person singular present ceithiwaf)
singular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
present indicative/future | caethiwaf | caethiwi | caethiwa | caethiwwn | caethiwwch | caethiwant | caethiwir | |
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional |
caethiwwn | caethiwit | caethiwai | caethiwem | caethiwech | caethiwent | caethiwid | |
preterite | caethiwais | caethiwaist | caethiwodd | caethiwasom | caethiwasoch | caethiwasant | caethiwwyd | |
pluperfect | caethiwaswn | caethiwasit | caethiwasai | caethiwasem | caethiwasech | caethiwasent | caethiwasid, caethiwesid | |
present subjunctive | caethiwwyf | caethiwych | caethiwo | caethiwom | caethiwoch | caethiwont | caethiwer | |
imperative | — | caethiwa | caethiwed | caethiwwn | caethiwwch | caethiwent | caethiwer | |
verbal noun | caethiwo | |||||||
verbal adjectives | caethiwedig caethiwadwy |
Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |
future | caethiwa i, caethiwaf i | caethiwi di | caethiwith o/e/hi, caethiwiff e/hi | caethiwn ni | caethiwch chi | caethiwan nhw |
conditional | caethiwn i, caethiwswn i | caethiwet ti, caethiwset ti | caethiwai fo/fe/hi, caethiwsai fo/fe/hi | caethiwen ni, caethiwsen ni | caethiwech chi, caethiwsech chi | caethiwen nhw, caethiwsen nhw |
preterite | caethiwais i, caethiwes i | caethiwaist ti, caethiwest ti | caethiwodd o/e/hi | caethiwon ni | caethiwoch chi | caethiwon nhw |
imperative | — | caethiwa | — | — | caethiwch | — |
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. |
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
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caethiwo | gaethiwo | nghaethiwo | chaethiwo |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.