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difficult to determine whether w or v is heard. ar a bharra er’ a vara, or wars. a bfuil when a@ unaccented is silent = sul. bhur =O. I. barn w0er or Cr.

bh in inlaut between broad vowels = w, and contracts with its vowels to ou, § 5,1, unaccented to U. abhainn ouin, adhbar our and vr’ S. R. an earlier stage of development preserved in a story, (in fddhbhar rave’ dh is a length making device) cobhatr xour’, leabhar lour from liber where é was regarded as a broad vowel unless the derivation is from librum lise’. labhairt court, tabhairt rour't, seabhac souk, abhac oux, a dwarf.

6. bh in inlaut becomes a w glide after T sound vowels or diphthongs, a y glide after i sound. siubhal siiwt, dubha pUwoa pl. fem. of nuv, subhachas sOwacis. After long vowels and diphthongs it becomes absorbed along with its indices, aoibhineas Inis, riabhach riuc, diabal diut. In enibhe, cuibhreach, cutbhreann, there was first umlaut to 1 and later contraction with y of v to I, kl, xlr’vc, xlr’n’.

7. bh under conditions set forth in $$ 6,1. 8,1, contracts its y to form i, Ei.

8. bh is sometimes sounded as v between vowels in songs. tabhairne tavrna, Eng. ‘tavern’, also téirne which should be tourna, cobhair xovr’, T. G.

9. bh =v unaccented after 1,, r, contracts when broad with a svar. from the liquid and the following vowel to 0, slender becomes y and contracts to T. arbhar arOr, iorbhas inUs, searbhas sarCs, marbhadh maxC, carbhas xarOs, as if phouetic for ‘carouse’, miorbhuil mirVil, ciorrbhadh kir0 dearbhadh dart, Cearbhal karOr. bandh pl. bainbhe nani leanbh laxuv but leanbhin layin.

10. bh in anslaut=v, v. or silent. Sadbh siv, banbh Banuv marbh maruv, craobh xrev, sliabh sliv, cliabh kliv. v in taoibh, leinbh, fearaibh, ete.