dewis

Welsh[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to taste, try, choose”). Cognate with Cornish dyuys, Breton divis.

dewis m (plural dewisiadau or dewisau or dewision)

dewis (first-person singular present dewisaf)

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third	impersonal
present indicative/future	dewisaf	dewisi	dewis, dewisa	dewiswn	dewiswch	dewisant	dewisir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	dewiswn	dewisit	dewisai	dewisem	dewisech	dewisent	dewisid
preterite	dewisais	dewisaist	dewisodd	dewisasom	dewisasoch	dewisasant	dewiswyd
pluperfect	dewisaswn	dewisasit	dewisasai	dewisasem	dewisasech	dewisasent	dewisasid, dewisesid
present subjunctive	dewiswyf	dewisych	dewiso	dewisom	dewisoch	dewisont	dewiser
imperative	—	dewis, dewisa	dewised	dewiswn	dewiswch	dewisent	dewiser
verbal noun	dewis
verbal adjectives	dewisedig dewisadwy

Conjugation (colloquial)

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
Inflected colloquial forms	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	dewisa i, dewisaf i	dewisi di	dewisith o/e/hi, dewisiff e/hi	dewiswn ni	dewiswch chi	dewisan nhw
conditional	dewiswn i, dewisswn i	dewiset ti, dewisset ti	dewisai fo/fe/hi, dewissai fo/fe/hi	dewisen ni, dewissen ni	dewisech chi, dewissech chi	dewisen nhw, dewissen nhw
preterite	dewisais i, dewises i	dewisaist ti, dewisest ti	dewisodd o/e/hi	dewison ni	dewisoch chi	dewison nhw
imperative	—	dewisa	—	—	dewiswch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

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

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dewis”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies