From paff (“thwack, thump”) + -io.
paffio (first-person singular present paffiaf)
| singular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
| present indicative/future | paffiaf | peffi | paffia | paffiwn | peffiwch, paffiwch | paffiant | peffir | |
| imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/conditional | paffiwn | peffit | paffiai | paffiem | paffiech | paffient | peffid | |
| preterite | peffiais | peffiaist | paffiodd | paffiasom | paffiasoch | paffiasant | paffiwyd | |
| pluperfect | paffiaswn | paffiasit | paffiasai | paffiasem | paffiasech | paffiasent | paffiasid, paffiesid | |
| present subjunctive | paffiwyf | peffiech | paffio | paffiom | paffioch | paffiont | paffier | |
| imperative | — | paffia | paffied | paffiwn | peffiwch, paffiwch | paffient | paffier | |
| verbal noun | paffio | |||||||
| verbal adjectives | paffiedig paffiadwy | |||||||
| Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |
| future | paffia i, paffiaf i | paffi di | paffith o/e/hi, paffiff e/hi | paffiwn ni | paffiwch chi | paffian nhw |
| conditional | paffiwn i, paffswn i | paffiet ti, paffset ti | paffiai fo/fe/hi, paffsai fo/fe/hi | paffien ni, paffsen ni | paffiech chi, paffsech chi | paffien nhw, paffsen nhw |
| preterite | paffiais i, paffies i | paffiaist ti, paffiest ti | paffiodd o/e/hi | paffion ni | paffioch chi | paffion nhw |
| imperative | — | paffia | — | — | paffiwch | — |
| Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. | ||||||
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
|---|---|---|---|
| paffio | baffio | mhaffio | phaffio |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.