erlid

Welsh

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y- (“sticky, liquid”), as in glynu, with a prefix equivalent to er-.^[1]

Formerly, erlyn- (or erlin-) was the stem with -d acting as a verbnoun ending (as in bod, yfed, cymryd, etc.; see Proto-Celtic *-tus).^[2] In Modern Welsh, erlyn (“to prosecute”) is used as the verbnoun for a separate verb.^[3]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɛrlɪd/

Verb

erlid (first-person singular present erlidiaf)

(transitive) to chase, to pursue
(transitive) to persecute

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third	impersonal
present indicative/future	erlidiaf	erlidi	erlidia	erlidiwn	erlidiwch	erlidiant	erlidir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/conditional	erlidiwn	erlidit	erlidiai	erlidiem	erlidiech	erlidient	erlidid
preterite	erlidiais	erlidiaist	erlidiodd	erlidiasom	erlidiasoch	erlidiasant	erlidiwyd
pluperfect	erlidiaswn	erlidiasit	erlidiasai	erlidiasem	erlidiasech	erlidiasent	erlidiasid, erlidiesid
present subjunctive	erlidiwyf	erlidiech	erlidio	erlidiom	erlidioch	erlidiont	erlidier
imperative	—	erlidia	erlidied	erlidiwn	erlidiwch	erlidient	erlidier
verbal noun	erlid
verbal adjectives	erlidiedig erlidiadwy

Conjugation (colloquial)

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
Inflected colloquial forms	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	erlidia i, erlidiaf i	erlidi di	erlidith o/e/hi, erlidiff e/hi	erlidiwn ni	erlidiwch chi	erlidian nhw
conditional	erlidiwn i, erlidiswn i	erlidiet ti, erlidiset ti	erlidiai fo/fe/hi, erlidisai fo/fe/hi	erlidien ni, erlidisen ni	erlidiech chi, erlidisech chi	erlidien nhw, erlidisen nhw
preterite	erlidiais i, erlidies i	erlidiaist ti, erlidiest ti	erlidiodd o/e/hi	erlidion ni	erlidioch chi	erlidion nhw
imperative	—	erlidia	—	—	erlidiwch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Derived terms

erlidiwr (“persecutor”)

Noun

erlid m (plural erlidiau)

persecution

Mutation

Mutated forms of *erlid*
radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
erlid	unchanged	unchanged	herlid

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

References

^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “erlidiaf”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
^ Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 203 iii 6
^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “erlid”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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

[2] Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 203 iii 6

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

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