cynifer

Welsh

Etymology

From cyn (“as, so”) +‎ nifer (“number”).

Adjective

cynifer (feminine singular cynifer, plural cynifer, not comparable)

1. so many,
   • 1938, John Pierce, “foreword”, in Dan Lenni'r Nos [Under Cover of Night], Liverpool: Gwasg y Brython, page 5:

     Gan i'r dull a gymerais o'r blaen, o gyrraedd amrywiol ddosbarthiadau o ddarllenwyr, ei gymeradwyo ei hun i gynifer, glynais wrtho, a rhoi cyfieithiadau a ffurfiau llenyddol ar waelod y tudalennau.

     As the method I had taken before, of reaching various classes of readers, appealed to so many, I stuck to it, and put translations and learned forms at the bottom of the pages.

2. as many, such a number
3. even (divisible by two)

   Antonym: od

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cynifer	gynifer	nghynifer	chynifer
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.