From Middle Welsh plygu, from Proto-Brythonic *plɨɡɨd, from Latin plicō (“to bend, fold”).
plygu (first-person singular present plygaf)
singular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
present indicative/future | plygaf | plygi | plyg, plyga | plygwn | plygwch | plygant | plygir | |
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional |
plygwn | plygit | plygai | plygem | plygech | plygent | plygid | |
preterite | plygais | plygaist | plygodd | plygasom | plygasoch | plygasant | plygwyd | |
pluperfect | plygaswn | plygasit | plygasai | plygasem | plygasech | plygasent | plygasid, plygesid | |
present subjunctive | plygwyf | plygych | plygo | plygom | plygoch | plygont | plyger | |
imperative | — | plyg, plyga | plyged | plygwn | plygwch | plygent | plyger | |
verbal noun | plygu | |||||||
verbal adjectives | plygedig plygadwy |
Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |
future | plyga i, plygaf i | plygi di | plygith o/e/hi, plygiff e/hi | plygwn ni | plygwch chi | plygan nhw |
conditional | plygwn i, plygswn i | plyget ti, plygset ti | plygai fo/fe/hi, plygsai fo/fe/hi | plygen ni, plygsen ni | plygech chi, plygsech chi | plygen nhw, plygsen nhw |
preterite | plygais i, plyges i | plygaist ti, plygest ti | plygodd o/e/hi | plygon ni | plygoch chi | plygon nhw |
imperative | — | plyga | — | — | plygwch | — |
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. |
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
plygu | blygu | mhlygu | phlygu |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |