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§ 50,1. d broad=ᴅ, slender, d.

ᴛ : t==ᴅ : d. The production is the same as for ᴛ, t in all respects except for the weaker explosion and the voicing.

d oceurs in anlaut démas (7) athd me pUmis, IT am only joking, dimas go raibh sé tinn=dubh-amus? ag dul vor, in Connaught assimilated to g, Gor. In the Desi d@ does not assimilate with g. One instance ba bhreng dam, no vreécuM M. song, perhaps of Western origin. It is remarkable that strange dialectic forms are preserved in songs and stories, each person repeating the words as he learned them and not forcing them into conformity with his every-day speech. dubhairt pirt a rare’instanee of i after a broad consonant, dada and dadamh vava, tada, OR. gan ttada do shuim mar leanabh R. 1. A. 52 p. 259.

2. In inlaut the result of worn down groups adeirim from at-bh-, admhdil, adubhairt. Preserved after r, drd, bard bérd. In inlaut after s, brosdugadh. The group sf- becomes sd in inlant, in auslaut it is hardened to -st. In auslaut there is sometimes indecision after r, cuaird a visit, an old loan- word. The same word borrowed again later is cuairt ‘a court’. magcuairt=imman cuairt, with ge writing of the tenuis voiced by a nasal, has -rd or -rt in auslaut. So d represents t voiced by a nasal in eadtrom Tapr’m from tRoum, eadtarbhach, idir and ‘dir, féidir meud. nead from “nizd-, by unvoiced umlaut provected to t over r by h in eatortha, edar-h to etor. In seanad sendt-, agrudadh serut-, spiorad spirit-, appears the usual change from tenuis to media in Latin words that were borrowed after the working of the aspiration law.

3. agad in sometimes written for agat, so d for t in aus- laut after s, e. g. arisd, but after unvoiced gs it is impossible to sound d except a voiced element follows.

4. id’ ‘in thy’ is always in do before a consonant in the

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