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rhyw
rhyw
Welsh
Determiner
rhyw (triggers Soft Mutation)
- some (a certain, an unspecified or unknown.)
- Mae rhyw ddyn tu allan.
- There's some man outside.
- Mae rhyw ddyn tu allan.
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Etymology 2
Cognate with Breton reizh.
Noun
rhyw m (plural rhywiau)
- (countable) sex
- (uncountable) sex, sexual intercourse
Derived terms
- rhywedd
- rhywiaeth
- rhywiol
- rhywogaeth
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| rhyw | ryw | unchanged | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||