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2. ew before labials and gutturals including guttural t= TA (yd). muineal munidr, sgeul sgial, fewch fiac, (Des. fech, Cat. 8), feuch air fyic r’, eugmais (= émmais) idnis, eudmonn idmn’ and yam’.

ta

§ 31, 1. da in O. I. is a diphthong= is. Dia dia, tasg TasG, grian gr'ion, do chiap ciar, pa her(?) 8. R. iarfaidhe irhi, by loss of accent to -aidhe, cad tad Kan Tap, cad eud Oass. 139 = catet .|. cadéd, mias mioas, biadh (now bidheadh where dh is used to divide a diphthong made dissyllabic.) jarla iorto from Skandinavian iarlr. A consonant relic is silent after ia. liagh lia, cliamhan klian or tlian, diabhal dist, bliadhain blien, fiadh fia, fiadhta fiera. riaghail : stivar T. G. 2, = Eng. ‘rule’, ordinarily riot, or is at most a glide.

2, dia .|. day in names of week days is always pro- nounced dé, the old locative become nom.

to

§ 32,1. io short and long. Short =i with broad following cousonant. Its occurrence in final noun syllables usually denotes « stems. fios (O. I. fiss) fis, lios lis, slies slis, sprios spris bior bir, spiorad srrip by metathesis. siosarnach sisk‘nuc, iothalla hagyard, ihuta, but ahuto Com. song. cion chin, Cat. 26, kun Dési, vid. infra, Sionnaine : whiggiona P. P. 96, iongantas : mithid C. M. O. 30; Untis and exception-

ally auyris Dési.

2. todhk short accented before bh, I, etc. § 6, 1. =i; long —7 in the same situation. tiodhlaicthe tilikaha, iodhna ino, pangs, but long biodhbha biva, iodhbairt isirt, ibirt, Cat. 22.

3. do before gutturals and labials—v. liom lum, laum exceptionally in the song Pitistin fionn, sliocht sluct, crioth kruc:cnoc P. P. 248, cioth kue, gen. kaha, fiocfaidh tuxig, with pron. tuka st, ctonnus Kunis, cunas, Cat. 26. cion kux affection, sioc sux gen. gob an t-seaca Gop a taxa, biolar, fiolar byurr’, fyur’, i after labial to y; humlan = h-tomshlan Cat, 24.