“What to do” is apparently translated as: beth i’w wneud.
My question is…what does the i’w mean/stand for in this context? 
Thank you for any help!
“What to do” is, I believe, “beth i ei wneud o” (what to do it).
The “i ei” is contracted to “i’w” and the “o” is dropped.
Sorry if I’m wrong, it wouldn’t be the first time.
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Thank you for your response! What is “ei” doing in there, though?
It’s just something that often occurs before verbnouns in Welsh - although we translate it as “what to do” in English, in Welsh we literally say “what for its doing”, and the ei = it (which, as Gruntius rightly pointed out, changes to 'w after the preposition i). Technically, the ei pairs with an o/e/hi (depending on what ‘it’ is) but these ‘second halves’ can be omitted.
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Thank you! The literal translation is super-helpful.
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