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113. The following trigraphs are employed in Modern Irish.—viz.,, and.

114. This trigraph is employed to denote the long sound of the first vowel—i.e., the “a” in “Maggie” (§ 12). As the and  shew, it is both preceded and followed by a slender consonant.

115. This trigraph represents the short sound of the previous one. It differs from and  (both of which also represent this sound) in the fact that it is both preceded and followed by a slender consonant. It occurs in very few words.

(gen. of, lit. form=); (gen. of ),  (gen. of ).

116. In this combination the first has its full value of, whilst the second  has its unstressed