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 aoghraigh muid, O.Ir. adraim; fʹə⅄riαχt, fʹïꬶəriαχt, ‘counte&shy;nance, face’, cp. Di. fíogh&shy;ruighim; fʹə⅄ri꞉, proper name ‘Fewry’; rə⅄ræʃtʹə, rïgræʃtʹə, ‘arrears’, Di. riaraiste; tʹrʹə⅄ꬶαuwnαχ, tʹrʹeꬶαuwnαχ, ‘furry-farry, cow going 2 years without calving’, spelt trao-ghamhan&shy;ach ZCP. iv 258. J. H. has ə⅄əm as an old form of əgəm but the latter is the one he generally uses. It is well known that Glen&shy;columb&shy;kille substi&shy;tutes əi in this and other words, whilst from an old man in the Croaghs I have once heard αuəm.

This diphthong has probably the same sound as Henebry’s î (p. 7) which arises under similar condi&shy;tions. In stressed syllables it commonly repre&shy;sents O.Ir. accented a followed by palatal g (Mod.Ir. gh). Examples—əi (ö̤i), ‘face’, O.Ir. aged (αiə may also be heard from younger people); ku꞉gʹi꞉ ləiən, ‘Leinster’, M.Ir. coiced Laigen; mwəidʹən, ‘Virgin’, maighden (Four Masters); səidʹu꞉rʹ, ‘soldier’, M.Ir. saigdeoir; səinʹænʹ, ‘aurora borealis’, M.Ir. saignén, cp. Henebry p. 33.

əi occurs further in several cases representing ai, oi, ei usually before O.Ir. d, g (Mod.Ir. dh, gh) which are now quiescent. əi, ‘liver of fish roasted to obtain oil’, plur. əjə, Meyer áe, O.Ir. óa; αvrʹəi, αvrʹəitʹαχ, ‘rough (of land), cross-tempered’, M.Ir. amréid; ərəirʹ, ‘last night’, M.Ir. irráir; bwæNʹtʹrʹəi, gen. sing. of bwæNʹtʹrʹαχ, ‘widow’; fwəidʹə, ‘patience’, fwəidʹαχ, ‘patient’, O.Ir. foditiu; səihαχ, ‘vessel’, M.Ir. soithech; bʹαlαχ fʹəi, ‘Bally&shy;bofey’ = bealach féich, also ə Nʹəiç = an eich, gen. sing. of O.Ir. ech; fαdəi, imper. of fαdɔ꞉, ‘to blaze up, kindle’, Di. faduighim, fadóghadh, M.Ir. atúd, fatód, past part. fαdəiʃtʹə (fαdɔiʃtʹə); fαstəi (‑αi, ‑ɔi), past part. of Di. fasdógh&shy;adh, M.Ir. astud, fastud. əi may also be heard in bʹəi for bʹei = béidh (this is the pausa form in replies, the allegro form is commonly bʹɛ).

In Donegal any vowel sound is liable to be nasalised in the vicinity of a nasal but there are various degrees. The speech of the older people is al&shy;together somewhat nasal in character and it is therefore not always easy to be certain whether a vowel is nasalised or not. The younger people on the other hand seem to be giving up nasal&shy;isation entirely, a state of affairs which according to Pedersen also exists on Aran