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with umlauted wi. Short vowels succumbed to umlaut influences much easier than long vowels, the palatalization which spread backwards from one element of a compound to another often succeeded in changing the timbre of vowel as well as con sonant. Long vowels however were endowed with great resisting powers.

croise xris¢: cineadh, 'T. G. 7, coinne Kma, roimh Riv as prep. pron. Roig, goineadh, ginag, Denn 80, goid, an méilin a goideadh naim ciduc, thoir hir, toinnibh tiniv, Bob. stoirm Muire T. G. 3, coire xir'a, ib. 19, illidh-phiasd=oill-phiast Re 69, p. 34. oeiltis truime, D. R. 90, coirp wirp, gen. of corp enoic KNIk gen. of cnoc, troighthe rriha pl. of troigh : dlaoi, soip stp gen. of sop. oiread irap and urRap, d’oirfeadh virhu oide ida, and so oineach, oiledin (and ilan) otreamh, roilg, loise, loinnge, foirseadh, coindeal xinv’, from candéla to céindél and ~ a umlauted to i by the slender group mn. This should be coinu’ but that the ending is lightened by 7 sonans. (Of. coindleoir Koinlor’), coin xin, pl. of ct, coille Kila gen. of coill Kil, a wood. coimeud kimap. croidhthe: buille T. G. 18, di gh, absorbed before -the. thoirmeasgann hirmisgan, Cat. 25.

3. ot with y from dh, gh, contracts to 1, croidhe wher o is now only the timbre index of the broad group, troigl dlaci, oidhche tha, coidche clha. So with y from m coimhdeacht : oidhche, 'T. G. 17.

4. oi in roimhe ‘before him’ = oi, roig, also roimhe s before that. rive sin in Connaught, roime seo: dibriog P. 308, roimpe ROoimpa, Rempa C. M. O.: taréis,

5. ot with y from bh’, gh’, dh, dh’, m’, or developed by Wl in pausa or Ul in position=i. vid. § 6, 1. oighre ira, droighnidhe vrini but print Bob. foighne Fina, patiene doimhin vin, doighir vir, coibhneas? :1 Sheehy, soillse sil ptwa poill pOxa pil, a dried toad-stool, coéll Kil, coimpleax has not umlanted o nor made its group -mpl- slender so it pronounced koumrliax appetite; in trompeud also no umlat