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 O.Ir. cin, ‘guilt’, M.Ir. cintach, ‘guilty’ and I am inclined to think that the ‑i꞉ in gα꞉ri꞉, ‘garden, small enclosure’, M.Ir. garda and o̤mwi꞉, ‘many a’, O.Ir. immda, is also due to analogy; for the latter form cp. Derry People 24 x ’03 p. 3—siomaidh sgéul atá innisiste fa daobh dó. Henebry (p. 65) states that “gh broad or slender after l, n, r contracts w or y with the svar. thrown out by the liquid and becomes ū or ī” and quotes as instances fead&shy;ghaile, murrghach. Pedersen (p. 15) says of Mod.Ir. gardha, “the word is now pro&shy;nounced garī on Arran with a regular change of dh > j, develop&shy;ment of svara&shy;bhakti vowel and change of əjə > ī; Scotch garradh”. Pedersen un&shy;fortunate&shy;ly fails to give us any further instances of the change of non-palatal dh > j and this sound-law has certainly not operated in Donegal, where Mod.Ir. dh after r, m dis&shy;appears, as far as can be seen. Thus M.Ir. gruamda appears as gruəmə; α NʹiəLəs, M.Ir. Mac Niallguis (Fergus and Oengus un&shy;fortunate&shy;ly appear as fʹαrəgəs and N⅄̃꞉s); *mór&shy;dhachas, cp. Di. mórdhacht, gives mo̤Rαχəs with assimi&shy;lation of rd > R and shorten&shy;ing of the preceding vowel; fαurə, ‘eclipse’ is obscure, but it may be mentioned here as it repre&shy;sents urdhubh&shy;adh. Further in a number of tri&shy;syllabic adjec&shy;tives in ‑rdha the result is ‑rə, e.g. kʹαχərə, ‘miserly’, Meyer cecharda; dαnərə, ‘cruel’, Di. danardha; similarly kɔrpərə (Meyer corporda), mαsərə, mwiNʹtʹərə, ʃαskərə.

However in the case of O.Ir. palatal g after lʹ, rʹ the svara&shy;bhakti i + j + vowel invariab&shy;ly gives i꞉, e.g. dælʹi꞉s, ‘diffi&shy;culty’, Keating doilgheas; Nʹiən, ‘daughter’ < inʹijən (the loss of the initial i is due to the word being frequent&shy;ly used proclitic&shy;ally) O.Ir. ingen. In a few cases a post-consonan&shy;tic palatal ch is treated as if it were g (Mod.Ir. gh), only the preceding consonant must be voiceless, e.g. fwætʹi꞉s, ‘timidity’, M.Ir. faitches; tɔ꞉r̥i꞉s, ‘number at birth, partu&shy;rition’ (ro̤g ʃi꞉ tʹrʹu꞉r ə jɛəN tɔ꞉r̥i꞉s, ‘she had triplets’), Di. toircheas, M.Ir. torrchius.

By shifting of stress fuirʹ, ‘got’, O.Ir. fúair, becomes fwi꞉rʹ. smwi꞉tʹuw, ‘to think’, repre&shy;sents M.Ir. smúainim, cp. § . For bwi꞉rʹuw, ‘trouble’, see §. For i꞉, iə < O.Ir. ua see forms with y §§,.

But one of the most frequent sources of i꞉ is O.Ir. ái, ói, now written aoi, e.g. fwi꞉ʃuw, ‘improve&shy;ment’, Di. faoiseamh