> > Meanwhile, more fun with mutations. The adjectives above presumably > soft-mutate in their capacity as descriptive epithets, eg in Hywel > Dda, or even Iesu Grist Apposition, surely; if they were adjectival that would make Hywel and Iesu f. Hywel Da 'good Hywel'; Hywel Dda 'Hywel the Good'. > But > is there a rule that proper nouns do not mutate after _a_ (*Seiriol wyn > a Chybi felyn)? If a personal name doesn't usually mutate, then it probably won't after "a". But (native) place-names do, I think. ************************ Nigel Love Linguistics Cape Town NLOVE@BEATTIE.UCT.AC.ZA ************************