{ 86} Note that when a syllable is added to a word ending in _gh_, the _g_ is omitted.
{ 94} _Idn_, to qualify a noun; _omen_, used by itself. Thus, _idn dên_, one man; _Ŏnen hag Ol_, One and All. _Wǒnnen_ is an alternative form of the latter.
{ 96} It has been held that this apparent singular, which is used after numerals in Welsh and Breton also, is really a genitive plural. In the Gaelic languages, in which the case-inflections of nouns still exist, the genitive plural is usually (though not universally) the same as the nominative singular, except in Manx, where it is only distinguishable from the nominative plural by its article, but except in the cases of _da_, two, _fichead_, twenty, _ceud_, a hundred, and _mile_, a thousand, which precede nouns in the singular, the plural follows numerals in those languages.
{ 119} There is, however, some blight confusion in late Cornish MSS. between this use of _re_, and the auxiliary form with _wrîg_. The difference of sound in cases of verbs beginning with _g_ or _c_ would be very slight.
{ 133} Spelling assimilated to that of this grammar.
{ 135} It will not be necessary to add the pronouns to every tense.
{ 136} The remarks on the use of the different forms of this tense apply _mutatis mutandis_ to the other tenses. See also Chapter XIV. § I.
{ 144} _Kegy_, _kehegy_ (in _St. Meriasek_), are _ke_, _kehe_, with _jy_ or _gy_ (=_dî_), the personal pronoun added.
{ 149} Older _yn_. When this is followed by a possessive pronoun of the first or second person the _n_ is dropped, and the possessive pronoun takes the form which follows a preposition ending in a vowel, _e’m_, _e’th_. When the definite article would follow the two coalesce and _en_=_en an_.
{ 153} _na_=_ni_ + a (_nag_ before a vowel), ought only to be used with interrogatives, but the later writers of Cornish did not always do as they ought.
{ 154} In Jordan’s _Creation_, 1. 599, “_Myhall sera thewgh gramercy_,” though Keigwin and Dr. Stokes both read _my hall_=I may, one is inclined to find this form of swear, and to translate it “Michael! sir, grammercy to you!” Compare the English use of “Marry!” (for Mary!) or “Gad!” (for God!) without _by_ before them. It is written all in one word and spelt the same as the name of St. Michael in the same play. It is no more of an anachronism to make Eve swear by St. Michael than (in _Res. Dom._, 1387) to make St. Thomas swear by St. Mary.