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 t-seasamhach ib. gein t-sleachta, Uilliam Inglis in Ren. 76, p. 18, an tsaoghail t-sogluaiste, ib.

8. ¢ appears after » final of verbal nouns, after slender s of 1* and 3" per, pl. of imperative and conditional, also sporadic after -is, Its presence in verbal nouns may be traced to analogical or phonetic causes. It may have been added on the pattern of tabhairt, labhairt, or the alveolar n by breaking contact gradually during continuance of the voico stream developed the final consonant. Eyen so alveolar s may have produced it by making contact in pausa.

Examples: — feuchaint fiacnt, gabhailt colt ‘going’, crédh- chaint, leigint lignt with i umlaut, foirithint helping, Dunne, fotreachtaoin, 8. R. taosgaint, Dunne, cosaint, insint, seachaint sient, feodhchaint fyGcnt, gradhchant Denn 68, tarraingt, fanamh- aint ranUnt, fuirist from fairis d-uit and d to ¢t after s in auslaut § 49,5, aithint, déthaint p6cnt and pecnt, go dtioc- faidist Gu duxodist, suibhcant, M. ni Dhonagdn, in O'Neil.

9. t from d in fathair rahr’ or hahy’, led’ t fhior-fhuil. ‘This is a revival of old ¢ under the accent. ¢’'ainm hanm, ad’ uachtarén tOcrr’in, tirein=d'fhireun, Cat. 3. Cf O. I. do-ind, accented tind-. ¢ provected from d+h in ceudta hundreds kéra, sing, kidp.

10. tl=el.t-slighe kli, so dl==gl, dligheadh gli.

11. #¢ im acht is lost, ac, or nac generalized from some ” auslaut,

‘12. ¢ assimilates c in Portclidhach purtvic, Portlaw.

13. th=h, thoil hel, hil, hor, athair ahr’, ceatha kaha. In auslaut th makes a short vowel explosive and appears as weak h before a following vowel. bith, bih Cat. 27, caith uait € Ka hwré. is maith é sin, is ma hé sin. Apparently silent after a long vowel sound, freith tr’, dith di.

14. ¢h broad in auslaut of the nom. case of nouns of the voealie declension which make an increase in the gen. is hardened to c.