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Middle Welsh
Etymology
From un (“one”) + dec (“ten”).
Numeral
undec m or f (ordinal undecvet)
- eleven
c. 1180, Cynddelw, Gwelygorddau Powys; quoted in William Owen Pughe, A Dictionary of the Welsh Language, Explained in English;: With Numerous Illustrations, from the Literary Remains and from the Living Speech of the Cymmry:, volume 2, London: E. Williams, 1803, page c. p585 s.v. Undegved:Undeg vad awen; undegved awyz
A weinyz vy nhynged,
O’m gwawd ran, o’m ban, o’m barzged,
O walç valç, o Weilçiawn giwed.- Eleven godly themes; the eleventh with my destiny will produce, with respect to my share of praise, of my elevation, of my bardic treasure, from a towering battlement, from the Gweilçion tribe.
- traditional, ascribed to Taliesin, Yr awdl fraith, republished in Hugh James Rose and Samuel Roffey Maitland , The British Magazine, and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, &c., volume 19, 1841, page 665:
Naw cànt dau undeg wyth
Y bu yn ymlwyth
Yn arwain mysg-lwyth,
Masgl a fæmina.- Nine hundred and thirty years
They existed sorrowing,
Bearing a mixed-race,
Male and female.
Descendants