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 Meyer anfand; ·αnχu꞉Nʹʃə, ‘monster’ < an-chuimse (?); diLʹu꞉r, ‘foliage’, Di. duill&shy;eabhar; dʹin̥ʹu꞉r, ‘set of 10’, O.Ir. deichen&shy;bor; ko̤gu꞉s, ‘roof of the mouth, hard palate’, which is pro&shy;nounced the same as the word for ‘con&shy;science’ (O.Ir. cocubus), Di. has cogansach; mʹïru꞉Lʹtʹαχ, ‘marvel&shy;lous’, Di. míor&shy;bhaileach, míor&shy;bhail&shy;teach.

It is only rarely that om, ab become u꞉ in stressed syllables. This is chiefly in the prefix kũ꞉‑, O.Ir. com‑, as in ·kũ꞉χrïNʹuw, ‘gathering’, Di. cómh&shy;chruin&shy;niughadh; kũ꞉çαŋəLʹtʹə, ‘bound together, connected’, Di. cóimh&shy;chean&shy;glaim; kũαnəN, ‘alike, even’, Di. cóimh&shy;ionann; kũ꞉jαs, ‘ambi&shy;dexter’, Di. cóimh&shy;dheas. Note also fʹiurəs beside fʹiəurəs, ‘fever’, M.Ir. fiabhrus; dʹu꞉l, ‘devil’, may be heard in oaths, O.Ir. diabul; dʹiunʹəs, ‘celibacy’, arises through suppres&shy;sion of the vowel of the middle syllable and vocali&shy;sation of the w in dʹĩ꞉wi꞉nʹ, ‘single’, M.Ir. dímain. ũərk for α̃uwərk, ‘sight’, Meyer amarc, I have heard from a very old woman. The future Nʹi꞉ hu꞉r̥ʹə mʹə, ‘I shall not give’, beside Nʹi꞉ ho꞉r̥ʹə mʹə (§ ) is al&shy;together irregular.

The infinitive terminations ‑ad, ‑ed, ‑ud all give uw, i.e. əꬶ (preserved in Scotch Gaelic, cp. ZCP. iv 510) > əw > uw. There is no differ&shy;ence in the ending between bw⅄꞉luw, ‘striking’, bualadh, and bʹαNuw, ‘blessing’, beann&shy;ughadh, which accounts for the hopeless confusion of the two conjuga&shy;tions. The ending ‑ed, ‑ad in the third sing. of imperf. and condit. active and the preterite passive is also pro&shy;nounced ‑uw (for excep&shy;tions see § ), e.g. pɔ꞉suw əNïri i꞉, ‘she was married last year’, ‑uw < ‑ad also occurs in bo̤nuw, ‘people’, lit. ‘stock’, Meyer bunad; bo̤nu꞉s, ‘the greater part’, tα꞉ ə mo̤nu꞉s erʹ ə ʃkʹɛəl əwα̃꞉nʹ, ‘they almost all tell the same tale’, isé an sgéul céadna atá aca uilig bunus (Derry People 6 viii ’04 p. 3 col. 6), very common in the phrase bo̤nu꞉s ïlʹigʹ, ‘almost all’, Di. bunadhas, Meyer bunadas; ə wαru꞉s mər, ‘in compar&shy;ison with’, Di. i bhfharr&shy;adh; in the ordinals kʹαr̥uw, ‘fourth’, O.Ir. cethramad; ku꞉gʹuw, ‘fifth’, O.Ir. cóiced, cúiced.

O.Ir. u followed by g (Mod.Ir. gh) in accented syllables gives u꞉&#8239;: uw, ‘top cross-beam in house’, O’Don. Suppl. uga, ‘pin of wood’ (?); u꞉muw, ‘to harness’, u꞉mʹ, ‘harness’, Di. ughm&shy;ughadh, úghaim, cp. Macbain uidheam; u꞉dər, ‘author’, M.Ir. ugtar; Lu꞉NəsNə, ‘August’, M.Ir. lúgnasad; Luw, ‘less’, O.Ir. lugu; mu꞉rNαn, ‘ankle’, Macbain mugharn, Di. mudharlán; suw, ‘juice’, O.Ir. súg. Similarly we find lengthen&shy;ing before th followed by another consonant in du꞉χəs, ‘hered&shy;itary right’, M.Ir. duthchus.