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 of short-voweled syllables, or in position in inlaut, develope sounds which supplant the original root vowel or combine with it in the production of a new slurred diphthong. Failing the conditions e.g. when through an increase the syllabic division separates double consonants the primitive sound remains. Vid. § 3 sqq.

3. Pausa has a liking for long vowels and for the accent. Some verbs reserve a longer form for pausa, Chondairc me é, ᴄnik me ē, but in affirmative answer to a question ᴄnikīs.

4. The irrational vowel ə is absorbed by a neighbouring coloured vowel in context. Chuaidh sé isteach hwŪ sē stȧᴄ, or ᴄŪ, Two neighbouring irrational vowels contract to one.

5. Though unaccented syllables void their colour still they can but seldom be represented by the sign for the irrational grade from their liability to borrow a tint from following consonants especially labials and gutturals, including guttural ʟ. Cf. the ə from ɴ′ ᴍ′ becoming ᴜ under the accent in agam, sin, (san) is, the unaccented form of agus.

§ 3,1. a) A slender consonant left the foregoing long vowel unchanged. Umlaut however often took the place of a short vowel. This process in complete in many instances, in others is has not yet begun.

b) A broad consonant developed a broad parasitic vowel which usualyusually [sic] umlauted a foregoing short root vowel.

2. a) A heary consonant group lengthened, or far oftener, diphthongized a short root vowel under the accent. Thereby a great number of new slurred diphthongs have been developed. In Connaught and sometimes in Thomond lengthening only is apparent in those situations. Vid. Finek, Wörterbuch der mundart der Araninseln. Also in the East, in Man, fölsə fallsa, surï suirghe, Thos. Kermode Bradda, Isle of Man. Vid. Strachan, Zeit. f. Celt. Phil. I, p. 54. In the Dēsi and