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xxvi. guttural as an aspirate: ochd, nochd, bochd, reachd. O. Ir. has ‑cht here and W. th.

(5) Gaelic intervocalic t. The t of a root is preserved when the suffix begins in t, as [in caithte, spent,] in ite, Ir. ette, *pet-tiâ, lit, *pḷt-tion‑. The d of the affixes preserves it, as in aitreabh, taitinn, ruiteach, réit. The t of the following does not belong to the ultimate root: ciotach, *sqvi‑tto‑, Eng. skew, croit, root kur, lot, root lu.

This is a uniform Celtic d initial; Gaelic dh between vowels and W. dd.

These appear in G. uniformly as c; but in the Brittonic languages q, if labial&shy;ised, becomes p as in Greek.

(1). Initial k. See cluinn, cù, ceud, hundred, cac, cridhe, caomh, còrn.