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 ‘urging, nagging’, e.g. kyNʹαxəkyNʹαχə [sic] mʹə dʹαuwi꞉ lʹαt gə dʹi꞉ gə ro ʃinʹ dʹα꞉Ntə, ‘I shall keep on worrying you until that is done’, M.Ir. debaid; kαuwəl klɔχə, ‘heap of stones’, Di. cobhail, cabhail, cabhal (with different meaning); LʹαuwəN, ‘half-salehalf-sole [sic]’, Di. leath-bhonn; ʃtʹrʹαuwɔg, ‘impudent little girl’, cp. 194 l. 20; tαuwuw, ‘to earn, deserve’, tα꞉ α fα꞉jə tαuwi꞉(ʃtʹə) ɛgʹə, ‘he has earned his wages’, Di. tamh&shy;uighim, but J. H. does not nasalise, O’R. gives tabh&shy;uighim, ‘I profit, exact, collect’, hence the word seems to be a deverba&shy;tive from M.Ir. tobach infin. of do-bongim. kαuwlædʹ, ‘the noisy talk of a number of people’, kαuwlædʹαχ, ‘noisy’, cp. M.Ir. callaire, may be due to Connaught influence, cp. Finck i p. 41.

α̃u arises from O.Ir. am, em, (om). Before r, l, n a bilabial w is clearly heard and at the end of mono&shy;syllables the spirant loses its voice. Examples—α̃ugər, ‘distress’, Di. Meyer amhgar; α̃uwli꞉, ‘thus’, M.Ir. amlaid; α̃uwrəs, ‘doubt’, O.Ir. am-iress; α̃uwərk, ‘sight’, Meyer amarc; αuw̥, ‘insipid’, M.Ir. om; gα̃uwinʹ, ‘calf’, M.Ir. gamuin; gα̃uwnαχ, ‘a stripper’, M.Ir. gamnach; gʹα̃uwər, ‘young corn’, Di. geamhar; klα̃uwərtʹ, ‘nibbling, gnawing’, klα̃uwαn, ‘a spot where there is little grazing for cattle’, cp. Di. glámaim; klα̃usαn, ‘murmuring, grumbling’, Di. clamhsán; kʹlʹα̃uwni꞉, ‘son-in-law’, Meyer clíamain; kʹrα̃uw̥kʹrʹα̃uw̥ [sic], ‘garlic’, M.Ir. crem; Lʹα̃uwαn, ‘elm’, M.Ir. lem; Lʹα̃uw, ‘silly’, M.Ir. lem; rα̃uwər, ‘fat’, M.Ir. remor; sα̃uwi꞉, ‘sorrel’, Di. samhadh; sα̃uwiLʹtʹ, ‘to imagine’, Di. samh&shy;luighim, cp. Nʹi꞉ αkə mʹə ə sα̃uwiLʹtʹ də wrĩ꞉, ‘I never saw such a woman’, Nʹi꞉rʹ hα̃uwiLʹ ʃə bwiNʹtʹ dŨw̥, ‘he did not even as much as touch me’; sα̃uwnəs, ‘loathing, nausea’, Di. samhnas; sα̃uwruw, ‘summer’, M.Ir. samrad; sα̃uwinʹ, ‘All Hallows, November’, M.Ir. samuin; skα̃uwænʹ, ‘lungs’, Di. scamhán; sklα̃uw̥, ‘snarl’, Di. sclamh; ʃLʹα̃uwinʹ, ‘smooth, slippery’, M.Ir. slemon.

α꞉i usually represents O.Ir. accented á followed by a palatal th, d, g, e.g. α꞉i, gen. sing. of α꞉, ‘luck’, M.Ir. ág; α̃꞉içə, α̃꞉iç i꞉lʹ, ‘lime-kiln’, Meyer áithe; fα꞉i, ‘prophet’, O.Ir. fáith; grα꞉i, gen. sing. of grα꞉, ‘love’; χrα꞉i, pret. of krα꞉, ‘to torment’, M.Ir. cráidim; o̤mrα꞉i, gen. sing. of o̤mrα꞉, ‘report’, M.Ir. imrád (Atk. p. 762); sα꞉ihəm, ‘I thrust’, M.Ir. sáthud, pret. hα꞉i mʹə; sα꞉iç, ‘suffi&shy;ciency’, M.Ir. sáith; trα꞉i, ‘shore’, M.Ir. trág, tráig. When a syllable is added to a form ending in α꞉i i becomes j, as in fα꞉jəNỹ꞉, ‘prophets’, plur. of fα꞉i. When O.Ir. á is followed by any other palatal consonant we simply