cael.
to get, receive; to have (experience)
Meaning & usage
to get, receive; to have (experience)
cael anrheg
cael brecwast
to get to, be allowed to, may (with a verbal noun)
Gawn ni weld y ffilm hwyr heno?
Cewch.
to get to, be allowed to, may (with a verbal noun) to be allowed to have, may have (with a noun)
Cei di ddiod.
Ga i docyn i Gaerdydd?
used with a possessive determiner (agreeing with the subject) and a verbal noun to form a construction with passive meaning
Mae’r tŷ’n cael ei godi.
Gaeth Terry ei tharo gan bêl eira.
Where this word comes from
A complex, suppletive merger of two separate Celtic verbs into one paradigm. * The forms outside of the present first-person singular that contain an -f- or -ff-, and also cas, come from Middle Welsh caffael, from Old Welsh cephitor (pres. impersonal) and cepi (pres. 2sg.), from Proto-Brythonic *kėβɨd, from Proto-Celtic *gabyeti (“to take”). Compare Cornish kavos and Breton kavout. * The other forms without an -f- or -ff- (and pres. 1sg. caf) are from Middle Welsh cael, from Old Welsh ci (pres. 2sg.), from Proto-Brythonic *kėɣɨd, from Proto-Celtic *kageti (“to get”), a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *kagʰ- (“to hold”).
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