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hwy.

they; them.

3 characters1 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

pron/huːɨ̯/North-Wales/hʊi̯/South-Wales
  1. they; them.

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Where this word comes from

From Middle Welsh wy, from Proto-Celtic *eyes, plural of *es, from Proto-Indo-European *éy. Cognate with Breton i(nt) and Irish ia(d). The initial h- is from the final -nt of verbs having the allophone -nnh- between vowels (e.g. gwelant wy “they see” > /gwelannhwy/ > gwelan(t) hwy); the colloquial form nhw formed by the same process.

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