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 gives ans gach, T. G. 17. So s preserved after ar ‘quoth’ was used without the article, ar san fear arsa sé says the man says he, arsise and arsa sí.

4. An -is= is ending, mostly feminine, appears in a few cases. ótis a heavy ungainly woman, brocis a stout little boy, broc a badger, tulcis a rude woman, tulc a push, O’R. alpis a gluttonous woman, alpim, I eat ravenously, balcis a stout mis-shapen woman, balc, thick, strong, strupis an untidy woman. lítis a lily, líth D. R. 178, buatis is only Eng. ‘boots’.

5. sg+l, r suffers palatalization with slender vowels sgeul, sgléip, sgread, sgr-.

6. s of súd and sin=h when those words are proclitic in sentence anlaut. súd é hiᴅē, sin é ’n choint hinē ɴ′ ᴄoint.

7. sh before y=c in a few words. a Shaáin ə ᴄǡn, or ə hyǡn, luighe-sheol childbed cōʟ, do shiubhal ə cūʟ, or hyūʟ, otherwise =h, shlighe hlī.

8. s voices t in inlaut, steall ꜱᴅauʟ. stealladh ꜱᴅȧʟə, in auslaut unvoiced, last ʟȧꜱᴛ.

9. s in anlaut, sd in inlaut and sc? in auslaut takes the place of an affricate in Eng. loanwords. Seóirse George, lóisdín lodging, cisdin kitchen, damáisde damage, pitrisc partridge, carráiste carriage, páiste page, Sémus James, Seaán John, cóisde coach. Seóirse shows irregularity of treatment. Risteird ʀisterᴅ, in the West ʀᴜᴋʀ′ᴅ.

h.

§ 59,1. h is pronounced wherever met with except it be but the aspiration sign. a h-aon ə hᴇɴ, ní h-eadh nī ha.

2. h is sounded for f in fut. and cond. active after a vowel or a consonant that cannot be provected, ni sgarfad leat ni ꜱɢȧʀhəᴅ laᴛ.

3. h interchanges with f, b, § 47,5.

4. h unvoices l, n, r. shleas, hlaꜱ, do shnámh hɴǡᴠ, aithrighe ǡhrī, eatortha aᴛṛhə.