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Thread #50026   Message #2955045
Posted By: sian, west wales
30-Jul-10 - 06:39 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: Ar Lan Y Mor
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Ar Lan Y Mor
Technically, it's a "suffixed conjunctive pronoun ... to support or emphasise a prefixed or infixed pronoun,"* e.g. fy nghariad innau - my (own) love.   In spoken form, the 'fy' is quite often dropped and 'innau' becomes 'inne' in some dialects.

The conjunctive form is particularly emphatic (hence my addition of 'own' above). If the preceding word ended in 'f' it would be 'finnau'; or if in a vowel, 'finnau' or 'minnau'.

a.k.a. Emphatic Pesonal Pronouns.

Thus endeth the lesson ...

sian

* A Guide to Correct Welsh, Morgan D Jones