plygu

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh plygu, from Proto-Brythonic *plɨɡɨd, from Latin plicō (“to bend, fold”).

Pronunciation

Verb

plygu (first-person singular present plygaf)

  1. (transitive) to bend
  2. (transitive) to fold, to crease
  3. (intransitive) to bow, to stoop
  4. (transitive) to refract, to deflect

Conjugation
Conjugation (literary)
singular plural impersonal
first second third first second third
present indicative/future plygaf plygi plyg, plyga plygwn plygwch plygant plygir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/
conditional		 plygwn plygit plygai plygem plygech plygent plygid
preterite plygais plygaist plygodd plygasom plygasoch plygasant plygwyd
pluperfect plygaswn plygasit plygasai plygasem plygasech plygasent plygasid, plygesid
present subjunctive plygwyf plygych plygo plygom plygoch plygont plyger
imperative — plyg, plyga plyged plygwn plygwch plygent plyger
verbal noun plygu
verbal adjectives plygedig
plygadwy
Conjugation (colloquial)
Inflected colloquial forms singular plural
first second third first second third
future plyga i, plygaf i plygi di plygith o/e/hi, plygiff e/hi plygwn ni plygwch chi plygan nhw
conditional plygwn i, plygswn i plyget ti, plygset ti plygai fo/fe/hi, plygsai fo/fe/hi plygen ni, plygsen ni plygech chi, plygsech chi plygen nhw, plygsen nhw
preterite plygais i, plyges i plygaist ti, plygest ti plygodd o/e/hi plygon ni plygoch chi plygon nhw
imperative — plyga — — plygwch —
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Derived terms
  • datblygu (“to develop”)
  • dyblygu (“to double; to duplicate, to replicate”)
  • esblygiad
  • esblygu
  • goblygu (“to wrap up, to fold up; to implicate”)
  • hyblygu (“to bend easily, to be flexible”)
  • plyg (“bend; fold, crease”)
  • plygadwy (“foldable, flexible”)
  • plygedig (“bent, folded, creased”)
  • plygiad (“bending; folding; refraction”)

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
plygu blygu mhlygu phlygu
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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