plygu

Welsh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈpləɡɨ̞/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈpləɡi/
• Rhymes: -əɡɨ̞

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.