glawio

Welsh

Etymology

From glaw (“rain”) +‎ -io.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlau̯jɔ/
• Rhymes: -au̯jɔ

Verb

glawio (first-person singular present glawiaf)

1. (intransitive) to rain, fall as rain, fall in a shower (or showers) from above
2. (transitive) to rain, cause to rain, send down as rain

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	glawiaf	glawi	glawia	glawiwn	glawiwch	glawiant	glawir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/conditional	glawiwn	glawit	glawiai	glawiem	glawiech	glawient	glawid
preterite	glawiais	glawiaist	glawiodd	glawiasom	glawiasoch	glawiasant	glawiwyd
pluperfect	glawiaswn	glawiasit	glawiasai	glawiasem	glawiasech	glawiasent	glawiasid, glawiesid
present subjunctive	glawiwyf	glawiech	glawio	glawiom	glawioch	glawiont	glawier
imperative	—	glawia	glawied	glawiwn	glawiwch	glawient	glawier
verbal noun	glawio
verbal adjectives	glawiedig glawiadwy

Conjugation (colloquial)

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	glawia i, glawiaf i	glawi di	glawith o/e/hi, glawiff e/hi	glawiwn ni	glawiwch chi	glawian nhw
conditional	glawiwn i, glawswn i	glawiet ti, glawset ti	glawiai fo/fe/hi, glawsai fo/fe/hi	glawien ni, glawsen ni	glawiech chi, glawsech chi	glawien nhw, glawsen nhw
preterite	glawiais i, glawies i	glawiaist ti, glawiest ti	glawiodd o/e/hi	glawion ni	glawioch chi	glawion nhw
imperative	—	glawia	—	—	glawiwch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Mutation

Mutated forms of glawio

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
glawio	lawio	nglawio	unchanged

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

References

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