Note 1 — INTRODUCTION.
Reading edition
"Llyfr" means book (compare French livre, Latin liber). Perhaps I can partially indicate the impression which the word makes upon an English ear when pronounced in Welsh, thus: consider it composed of two syllables, Lly and fr; for the first syllable reproduce the sound of yie in the English word yield with a strongly lisped or aspirated l before it, and mingled with it, as lhyie, for the second, give the sound of vre in the French word livre; making lhyie-vre, accent on the first syllable.