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 e is lengthened to ā before rr in fearr and gearr, comp. farə, gir′e.

There appears also a functional use of ā from á to embitter the intonation in scornful passages. In a fish assembly convened once upon a time to elect a king the fluke happened to be absent. Hearing afterwards that the appointment had fallen to the herring „o in sgadán“ (ꜱᴄᴜᴅāɴ) arsa sé mar sin le searbhas, agus dá chomhartha sin héin thá caime ’na bheul ón lá sin go dtí in lá ’ndiu. Séan de Bhál Mount Bolton.

é.

16,1 é is written only in aslaut as like e it always makes a digraph with the timbre-index of a following consonant. mé accented ’nar bháil lé mé chur, D. R. 32 mē, cré, kr′ē, or almost kir′ē. So sé six, clé, ''inté .|. intí, when strongly acconted té; sin preap, té thicfeadh é'' sin pr′ȧᴘ tē hikᴜᴄ ē, that is a puzzle (‘problem’?) if there was anybody there who could understand it. ba é ʙᴜ yē, from bad e. ceadé an idle stroller cf. Anglo-Scots ‘caddie’, ré D. R. 94.

2. é=ī in tré tr′ī, faoi usually fé but occasionally fī fí dhéin, Com. song. bodaigh bhoga an phrácáis dá gcárna fi ghleo fī l′ō. Ph. H. fo thuaidh is now ō hᴡᴜəg.

ī.

§ 17,1. Ī. ī. Ī does not appear as representative of a single í sign because it occurs only after a broad consonant and so forms a digraph with the broad timbre sign. Thus O. I. cride is now written croidhe.|.Ī+y to ī. It is the sound of several digraphs oi+y ui+y, etc. and the trigraph aoi q. v. It appears as í in anlaut after a broad consonant in context. Hence the effort of several Munster writers to represent the pronoun í by ui after a broad consonant.

2. í is written before slender consonants and in auslaut. mín mīn, spíce spīkə a nail, Eng. ‘spike’, chidhinn cīiŋ I used to see, giústis gūstis, ní nī, litis lītis a lily.

An ī arises from i in Thom. Des. under the conditions