peswch

Welsh

Back-formation from pesychu (“to cough”), possibly, influenced by abstract noun suffix -wch.

peswch m (uncountable)

cough (condition)
Mae peswch arna i. ― I’ve got a cough. (literally, “There is a cough upon me.”)

peswch (first-person singular present peswchaf)

(South Wales) to cough
Synonym: pesychu

Dw i’n peswch yn ddi-baid.
I’m coughing non-stop.

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third	impersonal
present indicative/future	pesychaf	pesychi	peswch, pesycha	pesychwn	pesychwch	pesychant	pesychir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	pesychwn	pesychit	pesychai	pesychem	pesychech	pesychent	pesychid
preterite	pesychais	pesychaist	pesychodd	pesychasom	pesychasoch	pesychasant	pesychwyd
pluperfect	pesychaswn	pesychasit	pesychasai	pesychasem	pesychasech	pesychasent	pesychasid, pesychesid
present subjunctive	pesychwyf	pesychych	pesycho	pesychom	pesychoch	pesychont	pesycher
imperative	—	peswch, pesycha	pesyched	pesychwn	pesychwch	pesychent	pesycher
verbal noun	peswch
verbal adjectives	pesychedig pesychadwy

Conjugation (colloquial)

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
Inflected colloquial forms	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	pesycha i, pesychaf i	pesychi di	pesychith o/e/hi, pesychiff e/hi	pesychwn ni	pesychwch chi	pesychan nhw
conditional	pesychwn i, pesychswn i	pesychet ti, pesychset ti	pesychai fo/fe/hi, pesychsai fo/fe/hi	pesychen ni, pesychsen ni	pesychech chi, pesychsech chi	pesychen nhw, pesychsen nhw
preterite	pesychais i, pesyches i	pesychaist ti, pesychest ti	pesychodd o/e/hi	pesychon ni	pesychoch chi	pesychon nhw
imperative	—	pesycha	—	—	pesychwch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Mutated forms of *peswch*
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
peswch	beswch	mheswch	pheswch

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.