Re: Gzarondan vindicated.

Henrik Theiling wrote, quoting myself:

> > > Why would you not simply swap it?  Like 'the sword's her'?  Maybe
> > >
> > >       cynt-ryn
> > > or    ren cynt ryn
> >
> > I think you meant to say _cynt-ren_ or _ryn cynt ren_. It's the sword
> > that has the inanimate gender.
>
> Hmm, I meant 'ryn' for 'she', but probably I did not understand the
> grammar correctly... :-)
My original post was long, and there was a lot to take in.

However, it did correctly state that articles with 'y' as the central
vowel have inanimate gender while 'e' corresponds to polite feminine.

In the example of "ren-ryniu cynt", we have:

    Ren-ryniu cynt -- her sword (nom)
    Ren            -- she
        ryniu cynt -- the.NOM sword

The word order for possessive phrases (possessing entity NP followed
by possessed entity NP) is the opposite of, I understand, Welsh, in
which the two noun phrases appear the other way around.

Adrian.

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