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 Limerick. dha saod triom: péin, O'Neil. Also ＝ ī, Des. saoigheada : triomsa, M. ní Dhonagin, taidhbhreadh : tríd D. R. 66, Dēsi ᴛîvruɢ, aighnis : díth, D. R. 88.

5. aí=e which is an umlant of o. raibh ʀev ＝ robhí and with ro accented after ní to roibh and with i umlaut of o to ʀev, ʀe before pronouns. saidhbhir ꜱîr′ or ꜱᴇir′ and ꜱevṛ′ an index of its etymology *so-id-ber. O. I. preps. for and ar fell together (like la and fri and, with mistake of f for prothetic, through ri to le) The forms are; orm, ort, air, airthe, orainn, oraibh, ortha, The masculine pronominal form air is used also for the simple prep. as aige for ag. The pronunciation of all the forms goes back to for, with loss of f through confusion with prothetic f, the writing of air, airthe comes apparently from ar. The pronunciation is however er, erhə, ai being merely the phonetic for umlauted o.

6. ai unaccented =ə. cabhair ᴋouṛ′, tabhair ᴛouṛ′, Corcaig ᴋoʀkig, caisleán ᴋɪslǡɴ, contraction gabhail leo ɢōl, C. M. O. 10. Before the accent ag aireachas i gr′ȧᴄiꜱ.

7. ai=o in ghaibh sé ʏo sē.

8. ai= ǡ in aithrighe ǡrhī, where rh constitutes position. In this combination the r is unvoiced a fact to which Dr Pedersen directed my attention.

§ 22,1. ái=ǡ with a slender consonant following. táinic hǡnig, táinic sé hǡnə sē, páirc ᴘǡrk Eng. ‘park’.

2. ái in paráiste=ō. ᴘʀōstə, (from French oe), paroisde Cat. 30.

§ 23,1. ao=ᴇ. It occurs in anlaut and inlaut; ae is reserved for a few auslaut occurrences, ar aon chor ər ᴇᴄʀ′, taobh ᴛᴇᴠ, gaol ɢᴇʟ, saogal ꜱᴇʟ, sometimes ꜱᴇɢʟ′ in verse T. G, 16,23, either through remembrance of the unaffected consonant or (more likely) from the traditional word-picture. Those Latin loan words exhibiting a media for tennis i. e. Welsh vocalic infection, saoghal, etc. came to us through a British medium. In genitives vocatives and plurals of o stems