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3. ¢ in inlaut was preserved only in consonant groups otherwise it became th=h. (An affection is sometimes found after 1, althéir, reulthan; totlhineach, Cat. 47.) slat, qeit, a start, siotadh a .whinnying, its derivative siofaireacht crying without tears (of a child eraving something), ftotdn a stiff glass of whiskey are examples of old double tf Single ¢ is found in inlaut in loan words received after the working of the vocalic infection peata a pet, pétaire, poitin, pratainn a ‘patent’ with infixed r, cttitiughadh ‘requite’ Pedersen. Perhaps rather from the form ‘quit’.

4, The group -cht is unaffected and always broad. The palatalized boiet of O. I. aud found also in Keatynge was merely a symmetrical writing.

5. ¢ after s in inlaut=d, in auslaut again hardened to ¢. $ causes exactly the same change in the ease of g, ¢.

6. t as also d is often preserved in anlaut after a foregoing s, cionnus té tit? but thé sé, is do bhi acu, This is part of the phonetic rule that d, t, s, 1, mn, and d, ¢, 3, meet in compound formation without disturbance,

é is written d in dara taro.

7. The prep. ind- unaccented form inn, being accented in noun composition took the form iné- in combination with the h relic of s. Thus intshamhail from ind+h. From this went forth a sort of sandhi ¢ between n and s in composition, and later between 1, s and s. Examples: — intseachanta ‘vitandus’. (Here there is some doubt of the preposition though it seems as if the new participium necessitatis was compounded with the in- particle of inairm ‘fit to bear arms’, ete. not with ind-), caol t-sruth, le crainn tsleadh fhaobhar, Denn, 80, cois t-Stvtire by the Suir, min t-sruth, Cion t-sail P. P. 312, caomh t-suaire, O'Neil, fionna-bhean t-séimh, ib. maidin t-samraidh, S. na Sréma, milis tséin, T. G. 6, an chlaoin t-saoghail, ib. 31, min t-sruithe, ib. 44, caol t-sruith, ib. 95, glas t-snuim, ib. 35, gleagal t-suairc, Deun, Ms. Waterford College, p. 34, buan