Gyda ei gilydd

Welsh
#1

Thank you for your response…

together: gyda ei gilydd.

Aeth y bechgyn gyda ei gilydd.

If the persons are all female, should it not become gyda ei chilydd?

Aeth y ferched gyda ei chilydd?

But I can’t find any example of this.

Diolch am unrhyw ateb

Ian, Machynlleth

#2

No, because the word cilydd no longer exists outside of the phrase “ei gilydd”, so the phrase is taken as a whole. (cilydd originally meant ‘a fellow’, so was only a male noun anyway)

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