glawio
Welsh
Etymology
From glaw (“rain”) + -io.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡlau̯jɔ/
Verb
glawio (first-person singular present glawiaf)
- (intransitive) to rain, fall as rain, fall in a shower (or showers) from above
- (transitive) to rain, cause to rain, send down as rain
Conjugation
Conjugation (literary)
| singular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
| present indicative/future | glawiaf | glawi | glawia | glawiwn | glawiwch | glawiant | glawir | |
| imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/conditional | glawiwn | glawit | glawiai | glawiem | glawiech | glawient | glawid | |
| preterite | glawiais | glawiaist | glawiodd | glawiasom | glawiasoch | glawiasant | glawiwyd | |
| pluperfect | glawiaswn | glawiasit | glawiasai | glawiasem | glawiasech | glawiasent | glawiasid, glawiesid | |
| present subjunctive | glawiwyf | glawiech | glawio | glawiom | glawioch | glawiont | glawier | |
| imperative | — | glawia | glawied | glawiwn | glawiwch | glawient | glawier | |
| verbal noun | glawio | |||||||
| verbal adjectives | glawiedig glawiadwy | |||||||
Conjugation (colloquial)
| Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |
| future | glawia i, glawiaf i | glawi di | glawith o/e/hi, glawiff e/hi | glawiwn ni | glawiwch chi | glawian nhw |
| conditional | glawiwn i, glawiswn i | glawiet ti, glawiset ti | glawiai fo/fe/hi, glawisai fo/fe/hi | glawien ni, glawisen ni | glawiech chi, glawisech chi | glawien nhw, glawisen nhw |
| preterite | glawiais i, glawies i | glawiaist ti, glawiest ti | glawiodd o/e/hi | glawion ni | glawioch chi | glawion nhw |
| imperative | — | glawia | — | — | glawiwch | — |
| Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. | ||||||
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| glawio | lawio | nglawio | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- Angharad Fychan and Ann Parry Owen, editors (2014), “glawio”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies