From dathl (“famous”) + -u. Coined by William Owen Pughe.
dathlu (first-person singular present dathlaf)
Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |
future | dathla i, dathlaf i | dathli di | dathlith o/e/hi, dathliff e/hi | dathlwn ni | dathlwch chi | dathlan nhw |
conditional | dathlwn i, dathlswn i | dathlet ti, dathlset ti | dathlai fo/fe/hi, dathlsai fo/fe/hi | dathlen ni, dathlsen ni | dathlech chi, dathlsech chi | dathlen nhw, dathlsen nhw |
preterite | dathlais i, dathles i | dathlaist ti, dathlest ti | dathlodd o/e/hi | dathlon ni | dathloch chi | dathlon nhw |
imperative | — | dathla | — | — | dathlwch | — |
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. |
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
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dathlu | ddathlu | nathlu | unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.