gorffwys
Appearance
Welsh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Variant of gorffowys, from gor- + powys (“rest”), cognate with Breton paouez (“stop”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“rest”) (whence Latin quiēs (“rest”)).[1]
Verb
[edit]gorffwys (first-person singular present gorffwysaf)
- (intransitive) to rest, to repose
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation (literary)
singular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
present indicative/future | gorffwysaf | gorffwysi | gorffwysa | gorffwyswn | gorffwyswch | gorffwysant | gorffwysir | |
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional |
gorffwyswn | gorffwysit | gorffwysai | gorffwysem | gorffwysech | gorffwysent | gorffwysid | |
preterite | gorffwysais | gorffwysaist | gorffwysodd | gorffwysasom | gorffwysasoch | gorffwysasant | gorffwyswyd | |
pluperfect | gorffwysaswn | gorffwysasit | gorffwysasai | gorffwysasem | gorffwysasech | gorffwysasent | gorffwysasid, gorffwysesid | |
present subjunctive | gorffwyswyf | gorffwysych | gorffwyso | gorffwysom | gorffwysoch | gorffwysont | gorffwyser | |
imperative | — | gorffwysa | gorffwysed | gorffwyswn | gorffwyswch | gorffwysent | gorffwyser | |
verbal noun | gorffwys | |||||||
verbal adjectives | gorffwysedig gorffwysadwy |
Conjugation (colloquial)
Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |
future | gorffwysa i, gorffwysaf i | gorffwysi di | gorffwysith o/e/hi, gorffwysiff e/hi | gorffwyswn ni | gorffwyswch chi | gorffwysan nhw |
conditional | gorffwyswn i, gorffwysswn i | gorffwyset ti, gorffwysset ti | gorffwysai fo/fe/hi, gorffwyssai fo/fe/hi | gorffwysen ni, gorffwyssen ni | gorffwysech chi, gorffwyssech chi | gorffwysen nhw, gorffwyssen nhw |
preterite | gorffwysais i, gorffwyses i | gorffwysaist ti, gorffwysest ti | gorffwysodd o/e/hi | gorffwyson ni | gorffwysoch chi | gorffwyson nhw |
imperative | — | gorffwysa | — | — | gorffwyswch | — |
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. |
Derived terms
[edit]- gorffwysfa (“resting place”)
Noun
[edit]gorffwys m (plural gorffwysion)
Mutation
[edit]radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
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gorffwys | orffwys | ngorffwys | unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.