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 several others a vowel is added to avoid the unusual auslaut. p is sometimes assimilated after m, campaidhe kaumhi, camps, 8. R.

4, A secondary p seldom written is produced by contact of b with the h relic of th, ch, or f (in fut. and cond. active) so b, d, g, and v are proveected to tenues in the fut. and cond, through regressive action of h from f. (This f though invariably written is not pronounced in the active yoico except it be the outeome of such groups as bhf, mhf, bhth.) The same rule has been in operation during the whole course of historical Trish (e. g. intathair from ind-sh) and is still active.

f

§ 47,1. f broal=r. faire rar’s, fina rana, faithche raha, fuair FOr’ and hwtr’.

2. f slender=f. feur far, fir, fir’, feall fyaut, fionn fyaun.

3. f like all temnes is voiced by ». go Dhillfidh cu vilhig, or with a pronoun cu vilho.

4, f(=rw, F, and f) becomes null on aspiration. go li fheil cu Lal, oidhche fheil thi, mo fhir mir’, mo fuip Eng. ‘whip’ mip, fuél ruil, aspirated il, so Fr even with w glide disappears. This glide in often the first clement of a diphthong consonantized. Accented or sound-bearing elements however remain after a labial, Juad wil, fuar rUar.

5. In O. I. there is observable a change in writing between b and f which is often further eomplicated by a pronunciation i in modern Irish. This change to ht is in peculiar contrast with the ordinary behaviour of f or & under aspiration. Vid. Pedersen, Aspirationen i Irsk, p. 19. Thus: beos, fos, fa for ba in Keatynge, féin = bé-sin, Z*. 366, Desi féin, héin, with féineach, héineach. fuair r0ar but fé fuair sé. é {@ hw0ar’ sé &, before he got it, S. R. ar fuaid er hwOip, mearbhal maraht’, tinneas gan branda cheann is mearfoll “head-ache without brandy’ Uilliam Dall (Tipperary)