rhyddfreinio
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Welsh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From rhyddfraint (“freedom, franchise, privilege”) + -io (verb-forming suffix) or rhydd (“free”) + breinio (“to grant, to privilege”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]rhyddfreinio (first-person singular present rhyddfreiniaf)
- to enfranchise (to grant a privilege or right)
- to emancipate, to manumit
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation (literary)
singular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
present indicative/future | rhyddfreiniaf | rhyddfreini | rhyddfreinia | rhyddfreiniwn | rhyddfreiniwch | rhyddfreiniant | rhyddfreinir | |
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/conditional | rhyddfreiniwn | rhyddfreinit | rhyddfreiniai | rhyddfreiniem | rhyddfreiniech | rhyddfreinient | rhyddfreinid | |
preterite | rhyddfreiniais | rhyddfreiniaist | rhyddfreiniodd | rhyddfreiniasom | rhyddfreiniasoch | rhyddfreiniasant | rhyddfreiniwyd | |
pluperfect | rhyddfreiniaswn | rhyddfreiniasit | rhyddfreiniasai | rhyddfreiniasem | rhyddfreiniasech | rhyddfreiniasent | rhyddfreiniasid, rhyddfreiniesid | |
present subjunctive | rhyddfreiniwyf | rhyddfreiniech | rhyddfreinio | rhyddfreiniom | rhyddfreinioch | rhyddfreiniont | rhyddfreinier | |
imperative | — | rhyddfreinia | rhyddfreinied | rhyddfreiniwn | rhyddfreiniwch | rhyddfreinient | rhyddfreinier | |
verbal noun | rhyddfreinio | |||||||
verbal adjectives | rhyddfreiniedig rhyddfreiniadwy |
Conjugation (colloquial)
Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |
future | rhyddfreinia i, rhyddfreiniaf i | rhyddfreini di | rhyddfreinith o/e/hi, rhyddfreiniff e/hi | rhyddfreiniwn ni | rhyddfreiniwch chi | rhyddfreinian nhw |
conditional | rhyddfreiniwn i, rhyddfreinswn i | rhyddfreiniet ti, rhyddfreinset ti | rhyddfreiniai fo/fe/hi, rhyddfreinsai fo/fe/hi | rhyddfreinien ni, rhyddfreinsen ni | rhyddfreiniech chi, rhyddfreinsech chi | rhyddfreinien nhw, rhyddfreinsen nhw |
preterite | rhyddfreiniais i, rhyddfreinies i | rhyddfreiniaist ti, rhyddfreiniest ti | rhyddfreiniodd o/e/hi | rhyddfreinion ni | rhyddfreinioch chi | rhyddfreinion nhw |
imperative | — | rhyddfreinia | — | — | rhyddfreiniwch | — |
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. |
Derived terms
[edit]- rhyddfreiniad (“enfranchisement; emancipation”)
Related terms
[edit]- rhyddfreiniwr (“freeman”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
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rhyddfreinio | ryddfreinio | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “rhyddfreinio”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies