deugain

Welsh edit

**Welsh numbers ^(edit)**
		400
^{[a], [b], [c]} ← 30	^{[a], [b], [c]} ← 39	40	41 → ^{[a], [b]}	50 → ^{[a], [b], [c]}
		4^{[a], [b]}
Cardinal (vigesimal): deugain Cardinal (decimal): pedwar deg, (optionally before a nasal or vowel) pedwar deng Ordinal: deugeinfed Ordinal abbreviation: 40fed

Etymology edit

deu- (“two”) +‎ ugain (“twenty”)

Pronunciation edit

(North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈdei̯ɡai̯n/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈdei̯ɡɛn/
(South Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /ˈdei̯ɡai̯n/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈdei̯ɡɛn/

Usage notes edit

Despite being written as u, the vowel here is /i̯/ in all parts of Wales.

Numeral edit

deugain

(cardinal number, vigesimal) forty, two score
Synonym: pedwar deg

Usage notes edit

Numerals which employ deugain as their final element, i.e. 41 to 59, use a (“and”) to connect it to the preceding element, e.g. un a deugain (“forty-one”), pedwar ar bymtheg a deugain (“fifty-nine”).

Noun edit

deugain m (plural deugeiniau)

forty

1888, J. A. Morris, Y pulpud bedyddiedig in nghymru, sef deugain o bregethau gan wahanol weinidogion y bedyddwyr [The baptized pulpit in Wales, forty sermons by various Baptist ministers], Abserystwyth: J. Gibson.:

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
deugain	ddeugain	neugain	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.