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14. ¢ provected from g in fut. cond, aet, is often kept with f in the passive. leacfar laxer’ T. G. 37.

15. cherdened from g in auslaut; gaedhlic, Ms. R. 1. A. 52 p. 310, end, so in Port Erin Isle of Man cilk vany’ ,Manx*, comkrac, craorac from caor-dearg? lochta, Fng. ‘loft’ was borrowed while -ft was still -cht. So ‘trough’ still keeps its old pronunciation in Ireland viz. trac.

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§ 52,1. g broad and slender occurs in unaffected anlaut. In mnlaut and auslaut it is the result of groups, the voicing of ¢ by nasal affection, or auslaut g fondness. gabhail, goile. In go O. I. co, gac O. 1. cach it is softened before the accent. The accented from of cach .|. cich is however preserved. The same phenomenon is seen in the case of d before the aceent, led’ thoil, etc. beag from becc bec, cogar xocr’ from con-cor, Slender geal gar, bige bigs. an- = un- gives € with nasal affection of a following consonant. Before ¢ the writing is eug i. e. regular eclipsis. Thus from eéir regularly eugedir, eigceart D. R. 64, eugeruth is sometimes divided eug-cruth as if it were a compound involving the use of eug death. In evgmais iimis, the writing of the partiele is one torn from a ¢ anlaut. It should be eummais.

2. g broad and slender is found in auslaut both accented and unaecented as hardening from various consonant relics, It is so prevalent and arises from so many various sources that it must be ascribed to a g fondness in auslaut.

In preterite passive G from dh. baluigheadh wiriuc, rugadh RuGUG, and so for all such cases. Another change of dh to G is that in adjs. with a -dha termination. ‘his however is not auslaut hardening. g appears much oftener. From gh; tig dat. tig, lwigh imperative, preterite without a pronoun, Lig, marcaigh ma'RKig, imthig imig, from dh. beidh beg, suidh sig, claoidh xuig, from bh, faig, C. M. O. 21, sgriobh sgrig, ppp. sgrito. Soin dat. of many verbal nouns, ag léimirig sa preab-