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 in shoe or of a rotten egg’, Di. glug; go̤rαχəs fα Nʹ tʹinʹi, ‘cuddling round the fire’, go̤r in tα꞉ n çαrk erʹ go̤r, ‘the hen is wanting to sit’, Macbain gur, Di. gor; go̤ru꞉n, ‘haunch’, Di. gurrún; go̤s, ‘vigour’, M.Ir. gus; ho̤g, ‘gave’, cp. tuccaim; klo̤pwidʹə, ‘crease, depres&shy;sion’, Meyer culpait (Di. cluipide); ko̤Lαχ, ‘boar’, O.Ir. cullach, callach, caullach; ko̤Ntəs, ‘count’, Di. cunntas; ko̤r, ‘to rain’ (‘to put’ is either ko̤r or kyrʹ), Di. cur with ana&shy;logical u for older cor; Lo̤rəgə, ‘shin’, M.Ir. lurga; Lo̤s, ‘herb’, M.Ir. lus; Lo̤χt ‘people’, O.Ir. lucht; Lo̤χɔg, ‘mouse’, Wi. luch; ·ku꞉gʹ o̤luw, ‘Province of Ulster’, M.Ir. coiced Ulad; o̤Nsə, ‘ounce’; o̤χt, chiefly in oaths əs o̤χt dʹe꞉, Wi. ucht; po̤NəN, ‘sheaf’, M.Ir. punnann; po̤Ntαn, ‘spindle in lower mill-stone’, Di. puntán; po̤s, ‘lip’, Di. pus; sLo̤gəm, ‘I swallow’, M.Ir. slocim, sluccim; smo̤g, ‘snot’, Di. Macbain smug; smo̤ləgαdαn, ‘shoulder-bone’, Di. smulgadán; sto̤kαn, ‘cone on hill’, Di. stúcán; to̤r, ‘dry’ (said of eating potatoes &c. alone), Di. tur, Wi. tar, tair, to̤ruw, ‘dry weather’, M.Ir. turud; to̤rskər, ‘refuse’, Wi. turrscar; to̤rəs, ‘station’, M.Ir. turas.

The O.Ir. prefix variously spelt ir-, er-, aur- (now written ur‑) is pro&shy;nounced o̤r. The common spelling with au was probably intended to denote some sound like o̤, cp. O’Donovan, Grammar p. 17. Medieval scribes seem to have been at a loss to represent this sound. The frequent appear&shy;ance of e for o̤, cp. terus = turas RC. vii 296, terad for turud Wi. p. 818, finds a parallel in the inter&shy;change of o̤ and ï in Donegal, cp. § . Examples: o̤rəχəsk, ‘injection’, Di. urchosc; o̤rəχɔdʹ, ‘harm’, M.Ir. erchoit, irchoit; o̤rəχər, ‘shot’, M.Ir. erchor, aurchor, irchor, urchor; o̤rLαr, ‘floor’, Wi. orlar; o̤rNỹ꞉, ‘prayer’, M.Ir. ernaigthe, airnaig&shy;the; o̤rχəL, ‘cricket’, Di. urchuil; o̤rsə, ‘jamb’, M.Ir. irsa, ursa; o̤rLə, ‘eaves, fringe’, M.Ir. urla; o̤rNʹæʃ, ‘furniture’, Meyer airnéis; o̤rLuw, ‘speech, eloquence’, O.Ir. erlabra, aurlabra (see § ). Note ɔ꞉rLə, ‘vomit’, Di. orlughcan, urlacan with ɔ꞉, *o̤rbəL, ‘tail’, M.Ir. erball has become ro̤bəL as elsewhere.

In words beginning in O.Ir. with i followed by a non-palatal consonant we expect ï but o̤ in&shy;variably occurs, e.g. o̤lər, ‘eagle’, M.Ir. ilur; o̤məd, ə Nʹo̤məd, ‘a great number’ also ə Nʹo̤mətə, O.Ir. imbed; o̤mərwαi, ‘con&shy;tention’, M.Ir. immarbág; o̤mərkə, ‘overplus’, M.Ir. imarcraid; o̤mlαn, ‘all, entirety’, M.Ir. imlán; o̤mpər, ‘carry’, M.Ir. imm&shy;chuirim; o̤mrα꞉, ‘mention, report’, Atk. imrád s. imrádud; o̤mwi꞉, ‘many’, O.Ir. imda; o̤mwirʹαχə, ‘furrows’, M.Ir. immaire.