cipio

Welsh

Borrowed from Middle English kippen (“to take hold of, snatch”), whence English kip.^[1]

cipio (first-person singular present cipiaf)

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third	impersonal
present indicative/future	cipiaf	cipi	cipia	cipiwn	cipiwch	cipiant	cipir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/conditional	cipiwn	cipit	cipiai	cipiem	cipiech	cipient	cipid
preterite	cipiais	cipiaist	cipiodd	cipiasom	cipiasoch	cipiasant	cipiwyd
pluperfect	cipiaswn	cipiasit	cipiasai	cipiasem	cipiasech	cipiasent	cipiasid, cipiesid
present subjunctive	cipiwyf	cipiech	cipio	cipiom	cipioch	cipiont	cipier
imperative	—	cipia	cipied	cipiwn	cipiwch	cipient	cipier
verbal noun	cipio
verbal adjectives	cipiedig cipiadwy

Conjugation (colloquial)

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
Inflected colloquial forms	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	cipia i, cipiaf i	cipi di	cipith o/e/hi, cipiff e/hi	cipiwn ni	cipiwch chi	cipian nhw
conditional	cipiwn i, cipswn i	cipiet ti, cipset ti	cipiai fo/fe/hi, cipsai fo/fe/hi	cipien ni, cipsen ni	cipiech chi, cipsech chi	cipien nhw, cipsen nhw
preterite	cipiais i, cipies i	cipiaist ti, cipiest ti	cipiodd o/e/hi	cipion ni	cipioch chi	cipion nhw
imperative	—	cipia	—	—	cipiwch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Mutated forms of *cipio*
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cipio	gipio	nghipio	chipio

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cipio”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies