_An Prounter ni ez en Plew East_, our parson who is in the parish of St. Just.
Or perhaps more correctly in a copy of one verse of this song in the Borlase MS.:—
for the article _an_ before a noun followed by an appositional genitive seems incorrect, though one finds in the earliest known version of the Lord’s Prayer, given in John Davies’s Welsh translation of Robert Parsons’ _Booke of Christian Exercise_ (1632), _An Tas ni_, though this may be a mistake for _agan_. In the song quoted above one finds also:—
_Dewe reffa sowia an eglez ni_, _Ha an prounterian da eze et an gy_, God save our churches and the good parsons that are in them. And in Boson’s version of the Commandments we find _gwitha gerrio ve_ for “keep my commandments.”
The prepositional form of the pronouns may be applied to almost any preposition, but there are a certain number of common cases in which the prepositions are modified by the composition, vowels being altered or letters being inserted between the preposition and this fragmentary pronoun, either for euphony or as survivals of archaic forms of the preposition or pronoun. The most usual of these modified forms occur in the composition of the prepositions _a_, of or from, _dre_, through, _gans_, with, _dhŏrt_ (earlier _dheworth_ and _adheworth_, Welsh _oddiwrth_), from, _orth_ (or _worth_), at, to, _rag_, for, _dhô_, to, _war_, upon, _en_ or _idn_, in.
_ahanav_, from me. _dredhov_, through me.
_ahanas_, from thee. _dredhos_, through thee.
_anodho_, from him. _dredho_, through him.
_anedhi_, from her. _dredhi_, through her.
_ahanan_, from us. _dredhon_, through us.
_ahanough_, from you. _dredhough_, through you.
_anodhans_, from them. _dredhans_, through them.
_genev_, _dhortam_, _orthev_, _ragov_, _dhem_, _warnav_.
_genes_, _dhortas_, _orthes_, _ragos_, _dhes_, _warnas_.
_ganso_, _dhorto_, _orto_, _ragdho_, _dhôdho_, _warnodho_.
_gensi_, _dhorti_, _orti_, _ragdhi_, _dhedhi_, _warnedhi_.
_genen_, _dhorten_, _orthen_, _ragon_, _dhen_, _warnan_.
_genough_, _dhortough_, _orthough_, _ragough_, _dheugh_, _warnough_.
_gensans_, _dhortans_, _ortans_, _ragdhans_, _dhodhans_, _warnodhans_.
There are many various spellings of these words in the manuscripts, and especially there is great uncertainty as to the vowel which precedes the pronominal suffix. As the accent is always on the preposition, the vowel of the pronoun is usually obscure, and there is not so very much difference of sound in the last syllables of _dredhov_, _genev_, and _warnav_, but still there is a slight difference, and there must have been even more in early days.