denu f
From Middle Welsh dynu, from Proto-Celtic *dinati. Cognate with Breton denaff (“suck”), Old English delu (“nipple”), Latin fēmina (“woman”).
denu (first-person singular present denaf)
| Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |
| future | dena i, denaf i | deni di | denith o/e/hi, deniff e/hi | denwn ni | denwch chi | denan nhw |
| conditional | denwn i, denswn i | denet ti, denset ti | denai fo/fe/hi, densai fo/fe/hi | denen ni, densen ni | denech chi, densech chi | denen nhw, densen nhw |
| preterite | denais i, denes i | denaist ti, denest ti | denodd o/e/hi | denon ni | denoch chi | denon nhw |
| imperative | — | dena | — | — | denwch | — |
| Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. | ||||||
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| denu | ddenu | nenu | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||