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fusion with tar n-; chuaidh cOa and hwOa, uainn win wen by change of accent, naidh wCig.and weg, uaim wtim and wem, fuaim r0im without w after a labial, waigneach Uagnuc or almost wegnuc.

2, uai=! in smuainte suinte, emynte, Cat. 9. ui

§ 41,1. ui short and long. Short =v, 0, with slender consonant. duit pot also pet (as rud gives rop and rep O. I. rét), cuid kup and with umlaut xm, cwisle kusla and xisle, amuigh omu, puinn (Fr. point) eOn from the literature? It should be pain, putnn: dlaot P. P. 29.

2. wie in buidheachus secis, seems imported from Des, Cf. coimhtheach : geugach.

3. ut is mostly umlauted=1. cuirfead sa xirhap sa, unvoiced r’, snip, soip str, cnuic Kntk. So cluig, thuit a Uuigire lag aici hit a uigr’a Lac aki, she almost fainted, cluigchill xuik] (gch to k) a bell (round) tower, druimfhionn pains’, druim should be prim in pausa, however drom is the Desi word. So spuir ‘spurs’, luisne, cluithche, cuilm:gliocas T. G. 48. duibh piv, T. G. 47, bruingeal same’ muir mwu’ Muire mwn'o, nd fuil, nile, mér-uile mteik, cuisne, cuithe, cuir, buile, buinnedn swinan, buime: milis T. G. 18, uéreashach IriSBUC.

4. ui under conditions in § 6,1 to i, with nasal wnlant ai. twillte tilta, saidhbhreas:i, Anna, (muintear, suim. Vid. § 8,4.) cruinn KRain, bruinn srain, cuing Kain. cuimhin Kain: crich OM Os Tk

5, wi with umlaut and contraction with y=I. luibheanna C. M. O. 2, cin’a, stuideamh stuv, buidhean swt’, fuidheach Fluc and so muidheamh miuv, cuibhreach, o Duibhir, leabar na h-widhri sa hir'a; so duidhe, duibhe, suidhe, luighe, guidhe cl.

6. wé unaccented=o or nul before the accent. duilleabhar pl0r, Uilliam lim, fuareach Frac, buinneach swinac,