dileu

Welsh

Alternative forms

• dilein, dilain

Etymology

From Middle Welsh dileu, from Proto-Brythonic *dileɣọd, from Proto-Celtic *dīlegeti (“to destroy”); cognate with Old Irish do·lega. Sense influenced by Latin dēleō, dēlētus and its descendants.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /dɪˈleɨ̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /dɪˈlei̯/

Verb

dileu (first-person singular present dileaf)

1. to delete
2. to cancel

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	dileaf	dilei	dilea	dilëwn	dilëwch	dileant	dilëir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/conditional	dilëwn	dileit	dileai	dileem	dileech	dileent	dilëid
preterite	dileais	dileaist	dileodd	dileasom	dileasoch	dileasant	dilëwyd
pluperfect	dileaswn	dileasit	dileasai	dileasem	dileasech	dileasent	dileasid, dileesid
present subjunctive	dilëwyf	dileych	dileo	dileom	dileoch	dileont	dileer
imperative	—	dilea	dileed	dilëwn	dilëwch	dileent	dileer
verbal noun	dileu
verbal adjectives	dileedig dileadwy

Conjugation (colloquial)

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	dilea i, dileaf i	dilei di	dileith o/e/hi, dileiff e/hi	dilewn ni	dilewch chi	dilean nhw
conditional	dilewn i, dileswn i	dileet ti, dileset ti	dileai fo/fe/hi, dilesai fo/fe/hi	dileen ni, dilesen ni	dileech chi, dilesech chi	dileen nhw, dilesen nhw
preterite	dileais i, dilees i	dileaist ti, dileest ti	dileodd o/e/hi	dileon ni	dileoch chi	dileon nhw
imperative	—	dilea	—	—	dilewch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Mutation

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