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198 sin, etc. Even the preposition has with some people degenerated into this, thus , "I want it," for.

Page 14, line 9. For read. Line 12. means hunting, but the reciter said,, "Shellig, that's a deer," and thought that Bran's back was the same colour as a deer's. , which usually means green, he explained by turning to a mangy-looking cur of a dull nondescript colour, and saying.

Page 16, line 30. and, and some other substantives of the same kind are losing, or have lost, their inflections throughout Connacht. Line 31. is used just as frequently and in the same breath as, without any difference of meaning. It is also spelt, but in Mid-Connacht the is slender, that is  has the sound of t'yee-ught, not tee-ught.

Dr. Atkinson has shown that it is incorrect to decline as an -n stem: correct genitive is. : see in O'Reilly. Used in Arran thus: = you cannot venture to.

Page 18, line 15. means a coal; it must be here a corruption of some other word. is frequently used for, "we," both in Nom. and Acc. all over Connacht, but especially in the West.

Page 20, line 3. (d'yemmŏŏ). This word puzzled me for a long time until I met this verse in a song of Carolan's

another MS. of which reads, i.e., defeat, from privitive, and  "victory." or must be a slightly corrupt pronunciation of, and the meaning is, that the king's son put himself under a wish that he might suffer defeat during the year, if he ate more than two meals at one table, etc. Line 15. = a "writ," a word not in the dictionaries—perhaps, from the English, "arrest." . The numerals and  seem in Connacht to aspirate as often as not, and always when the noun which follows them is in the singular, which it very often is. Mr. Charles Bushe, B.L., tells me he has tested this rule over and over again in West Mayo, and has found it invariable.

Page 22, line 2. = where, pronounced always (kay) in Central Connacht. Line 17. = If I get. In Mid-Connacht, eclipses, as  eclipses.

Page 26, line 18. = In the giant's house. , the proper Dative of, is not much used now. Line 20. = the pole of battle.

Page 28, line 9. = one-third of it telling stories about the Fenians. Line 10. This phrase occurs in a poem I heard from a man in the island of Achill—

I have never met this word elsewhere, but it may be another form of, "gentleness." Line 18. , a couch, pronounced (cul-looa): here it means the head of the bed. means, on the outside of the bed, when two sleep in it. , or, "a bed," is uninflected; but , gen. , is another common form.

Page 30, line 30. , "a great vessel or vat;" used also, like, for ship. The correct genitive is, but my reciter seemed not to inflect it at all.