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 so lé ndireamh, le n-ithe with pronouns alone le n-a, Céitin 6 n-a miathair, do n-a chéile, 8. R. dé cheann to his head, in songs, otherwise do na -cheann.

' 13. A--na plural appears in lamhna, cnimhna, Laxe,

xnaxa which is but: the riasal mk under a pa of form. So comh dona cOn. 14. m Appears as deriving suffix in some denominatives. breugnadh, mo cheusnadh T, G. 27, eriochnadh ib. 61, ceasnach P. P. 306. Those have a causative signifieation. Cf. bertaigim and bertnaigim, crithnaigim from crith in W. and numerous other instances in middle and even in: old Irish. This -naigim ending -may have been torn from some ease of the use of -igim with a stem having nasal auslaut.

-15. nach represents ach=acht occasionally. It is doubtless taken :from. some familiar phrase where it followed a nasal auslaut, such as ni bhidheann ach. ni bheirim sa chuaird liom nach a chircin bheag suarach T. L.

16. of the article is sometimes kept, sometimes falls out. There seems to be no rule, tdinic an buachaill, 'n ghaduidhe gen. 8. R. an cérda, ib. an dara h-uair tn, wv tara hOr tv, ib. as in dit, ib. din mhuineal = de +i, ib. ar am brég er > roc, ib. ‘gimtheacht an bhothair, ib. casadh an bhrég ghlan air, Kasuc n’vrOG YLan er’, nN’ ap is vi st while he was, ib. dhen lochta yew tocta from the ‘loft’ ib. (but din miiuineal, also do'’n fear pO far) fear ’n tanyard, ib, tabhairt 'n éitheach ib. raibh an t-action dé dhénamh Carrick-Shock song. Without m, mise fear a tighe-se, a bheirt 8. R. ar taob a bhéthair, insa choill, ib. fear a tanyard, ib, bhuail sé ’sa lorga, ib. a cds, ib. a cérda, ib. but also in cérda, ib, dé chitis? why? até = an t-adh.

li. an comprising the prep. in aud the article causes aspiration in such phrases as chuaidh tu an chill, Anna, téinic an buachaill an bhaile, 8. R. cuaidh sé isteach in scrubarnach, he went into the shrubbery, ib. ‘steach in ti