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style: inspirations in color</cite>, page <span class="None" lang="und">62</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Row 3. P1, yb, sl1 purlwise, <b>yf</b>, pbf, p1.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anagrams">Anagrams</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=yf&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Anagrams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/-fy#English" title="-fy">-fy</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/FY#English" title="FY">FY</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/fy#English" title="fy">fy</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Middle_English">Middle English</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=yf&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Middle English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=yf&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="enm">yf</strong></span> </p> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/if" title="if">if</a> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1474</b></span>, Caxton, <cite>Game and Playe of the Chesse</cite>‎<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10672">[1]</a></sup>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="enm">And attorneyes of court to the comyn peple of y'e royame as well in the spirituell lawe as in the temporall/ how torne they the lawe and statutes at their pleasir/ how ete they the peple/ how enpouere they the comynte/ I suppose that in alle Cristendom ar not so many pletars attorneys and men of the lawe as ben in englond onely/ for <b>yf</b> they were nombrid all that lange to the courtes of the channcery kinges benche. comyn place. cheker. ressayt and helle And the bagge berars of the same/ hit shold amounte to a grete multitude And how alle thyse lyue & of whome. <b>yf</b> hit shold be vttrid & told/ hit shold not be beleuyd.</span><dl><dd><small>(please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Quotations#Adding_translations_to_quotations" title="Wiktionary:Quotations">add an English translation</a> of this quotation)</small></dd></dl></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1545</b></span>, Desiderius Erasmus, <cite>A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure</cite>‎<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16246">[2]</a></sup>:</span><dl><dd><div 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class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-accent"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Wales" class="extiw" title="w:North Wales">North Wales</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Welsh_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Welsh pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/ɨːv/</span></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-accent"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Wales" class="extiw" title="w:South Wales">South Wales</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Welsh_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Welsh pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/iːv/</span></li> <li>Rhymes: <a href="/wiki/Rhymes:Welsh/%C9%A8%CB%90v" title="Rhymes:Welsh/ɨːv"><span class="IPA">-ɨːv</span></a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Verb">Verb</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=yf&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Verb"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="cy">yf</strong></span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#literary" title="Appendix:Glossary">literary</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> <span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#third_person" title="Appendix:Glossary">third-person</a> 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.inflection-table-brown th.secondary,.mw-parser-output .inflection-table th.secondary.inflection-table-brown{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-brown-1)}.mw-parser-output .inflection-table-brown th,.mw-parser-output .inflection-table th.inflection-table-brown{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-brown-2)}.mw-parser-output .inflection-table-brown th.outer,.mw-parser-output .inflection-table th.outer.inflection-table-brown{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-brown-4)}.mw-parser-output tr.inflection-table-brown-darker td,.mw-parser-output td.inflection-table-brown-darker{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-grey-brown-1)!important}</style> <table class="inflection-table"> <caption class="inflection-table-title"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Welsh_mutations" title="Appendix:Welsh mutations">Mutated forms</a> of <i class="Latn mention" lang="cy">yf</i> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/radical" title="radical">radical</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/soft_mutation" title="soft mutation">soft</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/nasal_mutation" title="nasal mutation">nasal</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/h-prothesis" title="h-prothesis">h-prothesis</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td><span class="Latn" lang="cy"><strong class="selflink">yf</strong></span> </td> <td><i>unchanged</i> </td> <td><i>unchanged</i> </td> <td><span class="Latn form-of lang-cy h-prothesis-form-of origin-yf" lang="cy"><a href="/wiki/hyf#Welsh" title="hyf">hyf</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="inflection-table-notes"> <p style="font-size:85%;"><i>Note:</i> Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.<br />All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.</p> </div> </div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://auth.wikimedia.org/loginwiki/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?useformat=desktop&type=1x1&usesul3=1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" 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