Borrowed from Middle English kippen (“to take hold of, snatch”), whence English kip.[1]
cipio (first-person singular present cipiaf)
singular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
present indicative/future | cipiaf | cipi | cipia | cipiwn | cipiwch | cipiant | cipir | |
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/conditional | cipiwn | cipit | cipiai | cipiem | cipiech | cipient | cipid | |
preterite | cipiais | cipiaist | cipiodd | cipiasom | cipiasoch | cipiasant | cipiwyd | |
pluperfect | cipiaswn | cipiasit | cipiasai | cipiasem | cipiasech | cipiasent | cipiasid, cipiesid | |
present subjunctive | cipiwyf | cipiech | cipio | cipiom | cipioch | cipiont | cipier | |
imperative | — | cipia | cipied | cipiwn | cipiwch | cipient | cipier | |
verbal noun | cipio | |||||||
verbal adjectives | cipiedig cipiadwy |
Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |
future | cipia i, cipiaf i | cipi di | cipith o/e/hi, cipiff e/hi | cipiwn ni | cipiwch chi | cipian nhw |
conditional | cipiwn i, cipswn i | cipiet ti, cipset ti | cipiai fo/fe/hi, cipsai fo/fe/hi | cipien ni, cipsen ni | cipiech chi, cipsech chi | cipien nhw, cipsen nhw |
preterite | cipiais i, cipies i | cipiaist ti, cipiest ti | cipiodd o/e/hi | cipion ni | cipioch chi | cipion nhw |
imperative | — | cipia | — | — | cipiwch | — |
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. |
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
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cipio | gipio | nghipio | chipio |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.