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9: mh slender in inlaut accented makes i and ki 2 6,1: 8,1; doimhin vin, treimhse treiso, deimhin dein,

10. In Thom. Des. sometimes=v where Dési contracts. domhain, dovin; Cat. 5, amhairc:deasga and therefore avr’k, T. G. 9, Dési irk, ceanamhail kanavl, T. G. 41. The same is observed in the case of bh, tabhairt, labhawrt, rourt court, or TOURT, LOURT, are sometimes Tavrt, Lavrt in songs.

11. mh broad in anlaut=v or w. a@ mhac 9 yak or a wak.

12. mh sometimes easts a nasal umlaut back to the beginning of a word, comhair, comhachta, lamh, xor', xOucta, Lav, where K and L are strongly nasal.

13. amhdin is awan and admiiuighan shows a svar- betweon @ and mh, apawim.

14. An -wm ending is found in slang words, dubhartum- diértum, tittle-tattle, bogadirum, sancum, mangalum did, a muffler around head and ears.

15. mm developed a svar. in words like camm before certain anlauts, cama-chlis.

16. m assimilates 6. camm cambo-, imm from imb, dumblas vumu'is. Where h provection enters in the } is preserved as Pp. itomchor aumpr’ from *imb-chor, iompédh aumpS from imb-shoud. Hence h provection is earlier than this assimilation.

17. mh is provected to f by h. liomhtha lira, naomhtha NEFa, neamhdha nara on the analogy of naomhtha, 1

18. mh orm of mic is sometimes dropped. tir *ic Cldin ©. M. O. 19, Piarus ic (Gearailt, Seann ‘ic Shémuis S. R. Cf. Welsh and- Breton ab from mab, vab.

Yr.

§ 57,1. r has several pronunciations or variations of timbre. Here only three grades will be distinguished. _

r in unaffeeted anlaut=r. rath rac, ré ri. rr in inlaut is like this, barra fearra aro taro. In auslaut rr appears to be unvoiced, barr. From this circumstance would come the