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also pl, O. I. téit being lost. leinbh leniv but also umlauted liniv, beidhead bec seems a mixture of subj. 3 beith and conj. biad. To join the vowel sound of beith to the broad consonant of biad it was thought necessary to add on -eadh, muna mbeidheadh is pronounced mr‘ic, but mara vee ‘only for’ M. song.

2, ci umlauted to i. teine tine, leinbh liniv, deitheanas from déineas and th=h developed and eansed shortening as usual, dihanis, leigint ligint, reilg rilig:einedh, M. ni Dhonagdn. deithbhir difr, eidir idr’ and dir, dar a bhfeill‘bheart par 2 vilo- vart, gein, gin Cat. 8, meithil mihl, neémh niv, sein in sein- shean-athair sinhanahir’ great-grandfather, meie mik.

3. ei in groups with y=ei- This in the variant from i caused by the e element § 8,1. Sometimes the sound appro- ached ¢. eirghe: céile T. G. 11, sometimes again not distin- guished from i. meidhir meir’ bhfeigil veil. r too seems to have an effeet, hence Eng. ‘pair’ ‘stairs’ are pronounced peir’s, steir’s, and often written perdhire staghaire; for as y from dh, gh, gives this sound so those consonants are written as phonetic signs of its presence. dh is however sometimes used as a mere syllable «divider or glide as in the ease of mi(odh}idh.

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§ 27,1. éi=€ with slender following consonant, eu=€ with a broad consonant following. piléidh plead, go to law, ag pléidh leis squabbling, bréig dat. of breug, Eire, na dhéig sin Denn 69, téirtéiseach (2) of prococious manners (of a lad, bad sense), gréithre gréhr’a wares, chattels, a réir last night, araoir P. P. 175. Vid. Stokes in K. Z. XXXY, p. 592.

2. There seems a lengthening before -st in éist Thom. Dési ist, pléist. Before r in position péirse Eng. ‘perch’. So Eng. ‘earns, ‘ferns’ is Ernz, fernz.

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§ 28, 1. eo is mostly long. It is short==o im ocr’, a key, a border, eochair-aoibhne: codlaim Keatynge, Eochaidh