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lacuy @ KLI erha my Father, reporting a Kerry conversation. This is the change from guttural to labial in the treatment of a consonant reli¢ observable in such examples as sawan, sehen, ete.

15. dh in the adj. ending -dha = c. mérda mOrco, drdha Sroa, Chiiodnd mhaorga, 5. R. So riogach, créga, diaga, yiaga, Cat. 7, diaganta, anvasarga Cat. 7, = ainmheasardha, after Ul, gallda Gaucno, after m in iomdha m0. In pl. of a noun suadha, na suaga, U. Inglis, Ms. in Waterford College.

14. dh is often inserted to represent a glide between two vowels. clitdhamhail, miodhadh miya. Also for the same purpose when there is a change of timbre beidheadh bec, bidheann biyn’, do chidheann T. G. 8.

15. dh which gave y and produced a slurred diphthong with certain vowels or influenced by final double liquids is often written to represent the y developed by double liquids when they produce the same sound alone. greidhean crein, so analogically greidim for greimm grcim. coidhill = coill xil, Ren. re. p. 65. sgridhig sgrig, ib.

16. dk from the analogy of so many silent dh auslauts is sometimes written ornamentally, daoineadh.

17. dh (and d) wnaceented often falls out. fear a bfearr. So the prep. do before verbal nouns became 3; do mharbhadh 2 vir. dia n- becomes dd with eclipsis of following consonant and d falls out dé ngrddhann tu ghlacadh & nrdn Tu yLaco, where also do is entirely lost before glacadh. So oc a mharbhadh = 4 var0, dé rédh 4 r’A, tabhair dam, Thom. Torm (Dési rour) and shortened to Torm by vocalic break of pausa. Cf. gabhtha Gora from Gol(?).

18. dh in -adh ending of verbal nouns is silent. bualadh aUaLa; this a contracts with y, w, of gh, bh, to 1, U after a liquid. § 10,7.

19. dh as ending of 3 per. sing. of imperative, imperfect and conditional—c. biodh sé biuc st, do gheobhadh yoc.