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s¢ dir prenin bec saya ‘he went for a sup of milk’, bhé sé Wiarraidh a choimeud isteach vi st dir 2 cim&p istac. Here do=ag. The case of dh before a broad verbal anlaut is exactly parallel, do dh’érdughadh > yGrn0. do=de is some- times treated in a like mauner before other parts of speech daon chloich ven croc T. L. rdithe d’aois raha yIs, M. song, slender before a broad anlaut in male d'ir yOr—dhe or S. R.

29. The ¢ of tar as oath formula=p. tar Miértin vara varrn’, or null, ar a bfulaing, T. L. ar ndoigh ar x0, § 18,3. So tada is dada. dar fiadh is par fi, with a curious lengthening of a.

Gutturals, c

51,1. c¢ broad x, slender k. Affeeted broad becomes a spirans c, slender the spirans c.

Occurrences: — coll Kou, corcor from ‘purpur’ of the early British missionaries from the analogy that ¢ Irish was =p Welsh. Inlaut and auslaut the result of a group or provection. leac, pluc, sprioe spruK, a spurt, a start to work, deavair, craorac. Slender, cill kil, lice lika, dirik a mouutain name near Mount Melleray in the Dési.

2. ch broad in anlaut and auslaut=c. mo chreach is truimme mo chroidhe nd cloc mu cr’ac is Tama mu crI Na KLOoc, so in auslaut geallach gatac, gu’Ac, marcach murKac gen. markig. In cht, beannacht by’acr, ocht ocr.

8. ch slender in anlaut c. mo cheann caun, a chleath 2 clac.

4. ch im auslaut parallel with th i. e. a foregoing short vowel is made explosive and an h is carried to a following vowel. deich de, deich aguinn dehacin, so anmich amu, after long vowel sound fraoich pri, gen. of fraoch rrec ¢ geritth= gerich. In inlaut after accent also=h, fiche fihe, da fhicid pahin, (slender d dental in auslaut), dutthche vtha, faithche raha, choidhche ctha, oidhche tha, dicheall, ar nihil, dihil,