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oci, seoch soc, seochas socis, “compared with,’ translated ‘towards’ by bi-lingnists,

2. eo long =. leo 16, eolus Otis, deor dor’ (from der. Cf. scél sceol, bel beoil), teo t6, na deoigh dat. of diad xa diag, ceol kdl, leoghan lex, leomhaidh redup. fut. of lamhaim and with f .|. «+ h to loruc, cond., geocach goxuc D. R. 87.

3. eo after labials = y6. beo byG, ar imeal do bheoil a stiir mo chroidhe se vyol, Sheehy, meoin obl. case of mian and used as alternate nom. for rhyme, feorach fydauc gen. of indfeoir the ,Nore!* feoil, feala gen. fy-, feoyh fy interj. of displeasure at a disagreeable smell. Here it is doubtful whether the value of y should be given to the glide. Neither does the rule hold universally; many labials have no following y. meoin is doubtful as it is no longer heard. 3

§ 29, eot is a trigraph eo before a slender consonant. The sound is 6. sgeoig sgdag, ceoil k6l’, sgeoin a fright sgin 6 to 0 by reason of the nasal and C= after a slender consonant.

eu

§ 30, 1. ew (=O. I. €+ a broad consonant) is a new diphthong = Ta, 74; oceasionally the old sound of @ is also preserved, meur mi‘ar, fewr fi'ar, (gen, féir, fer), deunadh | di4na but dénuv Denn 65, lens lias, ni'n leus céille aicé nin lias kél aki, ewn Tan, but ceol na n-eun Ex, Com. song. leusadh lésa, Bob, eug, tac but gairid go n-eugfadh cu néxuc. treun © and Ta, deug diac, breun brian, bheursa verso, perhaps supported by Eng. ‘verse,’ ceudna kiana, peucach piacach, Denn 65, ceud kidn, a being strongly accented, 1 is

only half long. So ceudna. meud mép, old @ preserved even | before dental p, teagair tiacr’. |

From lengthening through loss of n; eudéchas iavd‘cis, 6 | draws the accent and both i anda are only half long, eudtrom | idpr’M, eugedir Tacor’.