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arnaig, for léimnigh and preabadh, plabarnaig, Bob. In luigh, suidh, the old short vowel is kept because the consonant did not become y and contract. The verbal nouns are long tl, sl. claoidh and sgriobh are shortened by analogy. stgh-sa sag-so I stuck, T. G. 8, Lag he shot, from lamhach, laaim, W., aghaidh, ayg. Cat, 8, ia, Dési.

8. gh does not become g but is mostly absorbed after a long vowel. truagh, trUa, dégh burn, v6, C. M. QO. 10, déthim, O'R. fligh C. M.A. 7, brigh bri. In some of those cases the lengthening is due to contraction with y before the g hardening appeared. So tuagh, laogh, sluagh, sogh, righ ri gen., litig D. R. 91, but lyi, Dési, for the long vowel.

4. gh in inlaut is absorbed after a long vowel sound. stoghal ser, baoghal swet, soghach s6c, laghach tac. If originally short those two last examples should become souc, tic, though they may have been derived from ségh, lagh, when those were regarded as sd, va. As long sign; pughdar powder, ©. M. O. 12, hughda hood, ib. 12, faghnach P, P. 182.

5. gh broad or slender after 1, n, r, $ 48,9, contracts w or y with the svar. thrown out by the liquid and becomes Cori. feadghaile favllo, murrghach murOc; slender, bairghin sarin, eirghe sir'l carrghios Karis, doilghios, dolish, Cat. 35, coingioll, cuniol, Cat. 35.

6. gh lengthens e in breaghdha, br’fia, deaghthach dihuc, T. G. 47, but-sleagh sla, So u in chugham, ete., cOm’ else- where cucm’,

7. g seems preserved in glégeal glégu° and gléy.’, rigne is Rin. :

8. Sometimes g contracts irregularly in imported songs. tégadh, Dési técuc, tig Dunne; rigadh, rucuc Dési, rc in quoting a passage from C. M. O. Sometimes revived from the writing of saoghal, baagal, often sec’, secu’ in T. G.

9. gh broad=w and slender=y join with various vowels