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umercach Cat. = iomarcrach, iomarcad : fulaing C. M. O. 13. giolla:tusa D. R. 56, tiobaiste tunista, iomadach : cumasach C. M. O. 80. siolla: cuireadh D. R. Eactra an Amardin. So liobursach untidy, giolea gyuLka a place name, but gioleach gitkac by loss of accent. (§ 2,2, ILL), sprioc, miochair, briocht, riocht, rioch ruc, sgiob to snatch, sgiolpadh, triocha .|. 30.

4. io unaccented=o. ftaithniomath tanuvuc. So it often changes with ea im unaccented position. iomarcradh when accented on second syllable=amurko, thé an iomarcradh cainte agat ha y’ omuRKa xKoint aGut, fimehioll hoimrl.

5. to before the aceent often falls away; iomdha m0, iona wi, 6. io under the conditions in § 4,l=au. gan piomp leamh vaumr ,could* pride (in Sheehy :1) lionruéth lauruc: isbirt Sheehy, tionsgain taunscn, iomchur aumpr’ from imb- chor and b provected to p by aspirate as usual: miinte Denn, 61, tonryic oonric.|, Oxrik Denn. Fionn fyauy also faux, mionn, maun pl. mini, d'iompaig yaumrig with pron. as usual — yaumra st, ionta aunra and intra ioncholnughadh, aoncholnugh, — Cass. 139, pionta paunto, Eng. ‘pint’ prionsa pr'aunsa prineetl sometimes prinsa in songs, iontaobh, auntee in Dunne’s phon- etic rendering of the Carrick-Shock song.

The prep. ind- as noun prefix shows the same irregularity of intonation as con. In some instances even thongh accen it must not have grown on to its word and the heavy com | bination necessary to induce the slurred diphthong au was not formed. Of. the different treatment of seanduine sanpmo and — seandrui saunprI. Hence in a good many instances we fin the unaccented intonation of ind; iongantas Unris, but aunris, — Tom Lannon in a recital. 4

§ 33. io lang=i with a broad consonant. The o clement — was chosen as timbre index for @ would have induced confusion with the diphthong ia. miol mil, mio-=mi--+a broad cousouant, miorbhuil mirU] and mixd] from Lat. miradile with contraction