deddf

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Welsh

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁-dʰmó-s, from *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”). Cognate with Ancient Greek θεσμός (thesmós, “law, ordinance”).

Noun

deddf f (plural deddfau)

act, statute

Derived terms

cynneddf (“attribute, quality; faculty”)
deddfeg (“jurisprudence”)
deddflyfr (“statute book”)
deddfol (“legal, lawful”)
deddfu (“to legislate”)
deddfwr (“legislator”)
is-ddeddf (“by-law”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
deddf	ddeddf	neddf	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

^ Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 104 iv 2

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