u/Muted-Lettuce-1253

According to most dictionaries and translators I can find, the word for "repeat" is "ailadrodd".

Can "ailadrodd" be used for all kinds of repetition (in the same way as the English word "repeat") or does it only refer to repetition in the context of speech and writing?

I ask this because the etymology of the word is:

>ail- (“re-”) +‎ adrodd (“to tell”; "to recite"; "to narrate")

This would suggest that "ailadrodd" specifically means "retell" or "restate" or "reiterate". This would mean that the meaning of "ailadrodd" is narrower than the English word "repeat".

Recently, I have been wondering about how possessive determiners are used in colloquial Welsh.

The way it is taught in the Dysgu Cymraeg / Learn Welsh course (and I assume GCSE Welsh) is that you have fy, dy, ei, ein, eich or eu before the noun and i, di, e, hi, ni, chi or nhw afterwards:

ein car ni - our car

dy dŷ di - your house

However, I have seen and heard several instances where the possessive determiner is omitted entirely.

An example from a comment on a post on r/cymru:

>... fel roedd hen teidiau ni, ...

With the possessive determiner included, this would be "ein hen teidiau ni".

An example from a comment on a post on this subreddit:

>Ond dwi'n siwr na fel'na ma rhieni nhw yn siarad hefyd!

With the possessive determiner included, this would be "eu rhieni nhw".

How common is this pattern? Is it regional?

A feature of native colloquial speech is pronouncing "ae", "ai" and "au" as "e" in final unstressed syllables:

dechrau -> dechre

cyrraedd -> cyrredd

anifail -> anifel

Or, in the North West, pronouncing "e", "ae", "ai" and "au" as "a" in final unstressed syllables:

dechrau -> dechra

golau -> gola

darllen -> darllan

paned -> panad

cwningen -> cwningan

The above examples are all ones I have heard but I am interested to know how strong these tendencies are generally. Should I expect these rules to hold for every single word which has "e", "ae", "ai" or "au" in the final unstressed syllable?