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 in sandhi (§ ) as O.Ir. ln became L, supra §. Examples of L before s—bo̤Lsirʹə, ‘a crier’, Di. bollsaire; fαLsə, ‘idle’, Di. fallsa; fʹαLsky꞉, ‘burning grass or heather off the ground’.

L stands after r, e.g. bʹɛ꞉rLə, ‘English’, M.Ir. bérla < bélre; hα꞉rLy꞉, ‘happened’, M.Ir. tarla; kɔrLαχ, ‘small remainder’, Di. corrluach; mo̤rLəs, ‘mackerel’, Di. murlus; ɔ꞉rLə, ‘to vomit’, O’R. orlúghadh; ɔ꞉rLαχ, ‘inch’, M.Ir. ordlach; o̤rLə, ‘eaves’, M.Ir. urla; o̤rLuw, ‘speech, eloquence’, M.Ir. erlabra; tα꞉rLαχ ‘Toirdheal&shy;bhach’.

After m w l frequently has the thick sound of L in words like o̤mlαn, ‘whole, entire’; eʃəmLɔrʹ, ‘example’, Di. eisiom&shy;pláir. It may be noted that Finck states that L occurs after w, v on Aran (i 72, 73) and cp. Molloy’s comlain whatever the word may be (quoted by Pedersen p. 30).

L occurs in a number of forms where we should expect to find l. Finck notes that the descen&shy;dant of O.Ir. tempul has L on Aran (i 73) and this is also the case in Donegal, = tʹα(꞉)mpəL. There is a consider&shy;able amount of hesita&shy;tion between L and l, as in αskəL, ‘arm-pit’ (pʹαt(ə) αskiLʹə, ‘mother’s darling, spoilt child or beast’, skαrtʹ αskiLʹə, ‘a boil under the arm-pit’), Craig only writes one l and great un&shy;certain&shy;ty is observ&shy;able in older stages of the language, cp. Meyer ascall, ochsal, axall, axal; dʹəwəl, ‘devil’, O.Ir. diabul, Craig diabhall; kαuwlædʹ, ‘noisy talk’, Di. collóid, callóid (§ ); mo̤gəl, ‘husk, mesh, eyelid’, Di. mogall; tuəfʹəL, ‘a whirl, the wrong way’, M.Ir. tuaithbel. mo̤L, ‘a heap, pile’, Di. O’R. mol, may have been influ&shy;enced by the plur. mo̤Ltri꞉ to differen&shy;tiate it from mo̤l, ‘shaft of a mill-wheel’, M.Ir. mol, with which it is really identical. In uwLə, ‘apples’, and mʹαruwLαn, ‘giddiness, fit of dizziness’, Di. mearbhlán, the L has been trans&shy;ferred from uwL, ‘apple’, M.Ir. uball, and Di. mearbhall.

A voiceless L with strongly breathed off-glide occurs in the future of verbs whose stem ends in L, e.g. fʹαL̥ə mʹə ‘I shall betray’; gʹαL̥ə mʹə, ‘I shall promise’; mʹαL̥ə mʹə, ‘I shall deceive’; po̤L̥ə mʹə from po̤Luw used of catching hares &c. in gins, of bulls goring persons &c.; to̤L̥i꞉ fut. of to̤Luw, cp. to̤L §. Further pα꞉rL̥αn, ‘Partholon’. For the articu&shy;lation of L̥ and other voiceless liquids and nasals see Jespersen’s remarks on the cor&shy;respond&shy;ing Welsh sounds (Lehrbuch der Phonetik p. 80).