dychmygu
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Welsh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]dychymyg (“imagination, idea”) + -u, from Proto-Celtic *do-ad-kom-mik-,[1] with the final element derived from Proto-Indo-European *meyk- (“to twinkle”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (North Wales) IPA(key): /dəχˈməɡɨ/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /dəχˈməɡi/
Verb
[edit]dychmygu (first-person singular present dychmygaf)
- to imagine
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation (literary)
singular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
present indicative/future | dychmygaf | dychmygi | dychmyga | dychmygwn | dychmygwch | dychmygant | dychmygir | |
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional |
dychmygwn | dychmygit | dychmygai | dychmygem | dychmygech | dychmygent | dychmygid | |
preterite | dychmygais | dychmygaist | dychmygodd | dychmygasom | dychmygasoch | dychmygasant | dychmygwyd | |
pluperfect | dychmygaswn | dychmygasit | dychmygasai | dychmygasem | dychmygasech | dychmygasent | dychmygasid, dychmygesid | |
present subjunctive | dychmygwyf | dychmygych | dychmygo | dychmygom | dychmygoch | dychmygont | dychmyger | |
imperative | — | dychmyga | dychmyged | dychmygwn | dychmygwch | dychmygent | dychmyger | |
verbal noun | dychmygu | |||||||
verbal adjectives | dychmygedig dychmygadwy |
Conjugation (colloquial)
Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |
future | dychmyga i, dychmygaf i | dychmygi di | dychmygith o/e/hi, dychmygiff e/hi | dychmygwn ni | dychmygwch chi | dychmygan nhw |
conditional | dychmygwn i, dychmygswn i | dychmyget ti, dychmygset ti | dychmygai fo/fe/hi, dychmygsai fo/fe/hi | dychmygen ni, dychmygsen ni | dychmygech chi, dychmygsech chi | dychmygen nhw, dychmygsen nhw |
preterite | dychmygais i, dychmyges i | dychmygaist ti, dychmygest ti | dychmygodd o/e/hi | dychmygon ni | dychmygoch chi | dychmygon nhw |
imperative | — | dychmyga | — | — | dychmygwch | — |
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. |
Derived terms
[edit]- dychmygadwy (“imaginable”)
Mutation
[edit]Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
dychmygu | ddychmygu | nychmygu | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |