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Rh In Irish certain nouns preceded by prepositions have often the force of English prepositions. As nouns they are, of course, followed by a genitive case, unless a preposition comes between them and the following noun, when the dative case naturally follows. Such locutions are styled in most grammars “Compound Prepositions,” and to account for their construction they give the rule “Compound Prepositions are followed by the genitive case.”

609. We give here a fairly full list of such phrases employed in Modern Irish.