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7. e@ is sometimes written for ew =O. I. & leadmhar CG. M. O. 23, ‘daring’ from lamhaim.

8. ea unaccented =9 or nul. intleacht intluct, gealach glac, simrég Dunne, glé-geal glégi’, with second g unaffected.

%. ea representing O. I. e==a is lengthened to 4, 4 Thom. Des. before r in position or in contraction with w from dh, gh. ceardcha kirta a forge gen. kirtn, meadhchaint from med wage, lanx, W., macnt, Thom. macnt, agus ualach sgadin am mheadhehaint ar thaobh de: sgadin, D. R. 44. spleadhchas svlicis from *spled gone to 4 even in the Dési neamhspleadhach na-srlic, neamhdha: dluinn 'T. G. 22, nara, eneadh : blath T. G, 7, pl. xnaha: crdidhte, Zeit. f. Kelt. Phil. 1. p. 142, : pdis, Denn, eneadhaire knaar’a, T. G. 34, breaghdha br'déha, now comparative. (Vid. Manners and Customs Vol. II p. 183, bregda .|. bricin ‘threads of various colours’; the same word also occurs in an old poem quoted by O'Curry), na dheadh sin often in poetry no ya sy’ ‘after that’ O. 1. degaid, leaghadh ly& to melt, sneadh sna, nits. So the names o Seagha, 0 Deagha, So ei in leigheamh l€ov, to read,

Examples of lengthening from r in position like ceardcha above. ceathrmhadh karhvu, dearna dirna palm of the hand, and form of deanamh, dearbh (?) dixuv, appearancedeallradh, ferr gerr, fir gar, téarmadh : eadach, 'T. G. 10, ceafrach : cirnach, Mf. Siigach P. P. 90, ‘capering’, do chedthfrainn T. G. 26, Seaghan six ‘John’.

10. ea=i with y from dh gh in position (assimilated d, g? Cf. snaidm snim, pl. sndsy’s as if from snam-manna) meidhg, meadg, mic, treaghdadh trina, Tadg, fadb, teaghlach, ete.

11. ea==t by analogy, cuigeadh KUgi, ecuigu, Cat. 27, seiseadh stgii, seishu, Cat. 27.

§ 26,1. ei=e-+-slender consonant. Old ¢ usually preserved its sound before a slender consonant, Vid. ai.

leis les, sgeiche sgeha, beir ber, te te, there being no necessity for writing the digraph in auslaut. Comparative teo,