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 kũ꞉gʹə, compar. of kũ꞉N, ‘narrow’, O.Ir. cumung, kũ꞉glαχ, ‘strait of the sea’, Di. cumhang&shy;lach for cumhang&shy;rach, Macleod cunglach. Here we may mention the cases where n has become r̃, e.g. grĩ꞉, ‘good looks’, Di. gnaoi; grẽ꞉hə, ‘business’, Di. gnó; krõ꞉, ‘nut’, O.Ir. cnú. On the other hand several words such as kʹrʹαdi꞉, ‘to pant, groan’, Meyer cnetaigim and kʹrʹαsuw, ‘to heal’, Meyer cnes&shy;saigim, have given up the nasal. drũ꞉ʃ, ‘lechery’, Atk. drúis, doubtless owes its ˜ to some word like gnúis. The nasal in this word seems to be general, cp. O’Donovan, Grammar p. 37, Pedersen p. 66. But whence the nasal in klə͠ıəv, klɛ͠ıəv, ‘sword’, O.Ir. claideb? For sõ꞉ruw, ‘to observe’, Craig somh&shy;rughadh, beside the more frequent so꞉nṟuw and other cases of loss of nasal see §.   Corresponding to the two main vowel-divisions, back and front, we find the conso&shy;nants grouped into palatal (palatal&shy;ised) and non-palatal (non-palatal&shy;ised) conso&shy;nants, so that to every non-palatal sound there answers one of the other group. In some cases separate symbols are used to denote the palatal sound as in the case of j, v, ɲ, ç, ʃ, but in the majority of cases the palatal sound is represent&shy;ed by writing ʹ after the consonant, thus tʹ. It will be seen later that strictly speaking it is incorrect to call Donegal pʹ, bʹ, mʹ palatal sounds, but as they cor&shy;respond to the palatal forms of the other conso&shy;nants it will be con&shy;venient to include them among the latter. We propose to deal with the conso&shy;nants in the following order:

