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Welsh
Etymology
From Literary Welsh darfu (i) (“it happened (to)”), third-person singular preterite of darfod (“to happen”).
Pronunciation
Verb
ddaru (defective; invariable)
- (North Wales, colloquial) Auxiliary verb used to form a periphrastic preterite.
- 22/29 December 1989, Y Faner, p. 18[1]:
Ddaru chi ganu?- Did you sing?
- 1991, Angharad Tomos, Si Hei Lwli, Talybont: Gwasg y Lolfa, p. 58[1]:
Chwerthin a chwerthin ddaru ni.- We laughed and laughed.
Usage notes
Exceptionally this verb form may use the unmutated first-person singular pronoun mi instead of the usual i; this is a relic of the original literary construction which would use i mi (“to me”).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Thorne, David A. (1993) A Comprehensive Welsh Grammar (Reference Grammars), Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, →ISBN, § 290, page 274