cynifer
Appearance
Welsh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cyn (“as, so”) + nifer (“number”).[1]
Adjective
[edit]cynifer (feminine singular cynifer, plural cynifer, not comparable)
- so many,
- 1938, John Pierce, “foreword”, in Dan Lenni'r Nos [Under Cover of Night], Liverpool: Gwasg y Brython, page 5:
- Gan i'r dull a gymerais o'r blaen, o gyrraedd amrywiol ddosbarthiadau o ddarllenwyr, ei gymeradwyo ei hun i gynifer, glynais wrtho, a rhoi cyfieithiadau a ffurfiau llenyddol ar waelod y tudalennau.
- As the method I had taken before, of reaching various classes of readers, appealed to so many, I stuck to it, and put translations and learned forms at the bottom of the pages.
- as many, such a number
- even (divisible by two)
- Antonym: od
Mutation
[edit]radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
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cynifer | gynifer | nghynifer | chynifer |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.