...mistaken belief...that "ei" has some etymological connection with Latin "eius". (AmI making this up?) It is claimed by some that when Williams translated the Bible, he made a conscious effort to use words and phrases which looked or sounded Latin. Thus he all but invented the possessive pronoun "ei" which was not used, or at least not spelt quite that way, before his translation. This was, I am told, a deliberate attempt to increase the prestige of the Welsh written language. As the standard for written Welsh, even today, this has left us with this pronoun, as well as, possibly, an affected prnunciation of the "ei" sound, as in the English "eight". Of this last point, I am not certain. It is a mistaken belief that the pronoun is etymologically connected to Welsh in the normal sense of that phrase, but as it *is* derived from Latin "eius", albeit by a rather unorthodox method, it is a myth rather than a legend, I think. I am glad to know that I am not the only one to find this point somewhat amusing, after all, inventing words to increase a languages prestige, along with the new pronunciation, is something I would have expected more from the 19th Century than the 16th... and more from the Victorian English than the Welsh.