"Yna, os digwyddiff unrhyw beth, byddwn ni'n barod amdano fe beth bynnag"
Crumbs, thought I, what's that ending on "digwyddiff " then ? " - iff ? "
I didn't think that it was some horrible literary ending ... not in speech, in a kid's book. And it wasn't.
Then I thought, well, it looks like it might be an unreality/future-type ending, what with the "if" clause and everything... but the non-past ending for 3ps is "-ith"
Then I thought ...could this be some outlandish local version of "-ith", only used in tiny villages like Login etc .... nothing mentioned in "Colloquial Welsh" but then I went to the heavy stuff in King's " Modern Welsh: A comprehensive grammar" and there, in section 290, I found it ...
INFLECTIONS FOR NON-PAST, PAST AND UNREALITY
Non-past Past Unreality
Sing 1st -a -es -wn
2nd -i -est -et
3rd -ith (/iff) -odd -ai
Pl 1st -wn -on -en
2nd -wch -och -ech
3rd -an -on -en
Later on ( section 304) he tells us ..
" For the 3rd person singular there is an alternative, though considerably less common, form in -iff. This is mainly confined to areas in the south though it can crop up anywhere."
Sorted. But ... when you look at all those endings and variants and the "million versions of bod" it makes running (ruining ?) the country look like a doddle.
So ... here's Euros Childs .... " Dechrau'r Diwedd" ... it could be quite prophetic after that bloody disaster of a referendum ...