181. The o of mo and do is elided whenever they are followed by a word beginning with a vowel or ḟ, as m’ ḟuinneóg, my window; d’ aṫair, thy father.
182. Before a vowel do, thy, is very often written t or ṫ, as d’ aṫair, t’ aṫair, ṫ’ aṫair, thy father; even h‑aṫair is sometimes wrongly written.
183. The possessive adjectives may take an emphatic increase, but this emphatic particle always follows the noun, and is usually joined to it by a hyphen; and should the noun be followed by one or more adjectives which qualify it, the emphatic particle is attached to the last qualifying adjective.
The Emphatic Particles.
184. The emphatic particles can be used with (1) the possessive adjectives, (2) the personal pronouns, (3) the prepositional pronouns, and (4) the synthetic forms of the verbs. Excepting the first person plural all the particles have two forms. When the word to which they are attached ends in a broad vowel or consonant use the broad particles, otherwise employ the slender.
| SINGULAR. | PLURAL. | |||
| 1. | ‑sa, ‑se | ‑ne | ||
| 2. | ‑sa, ‑se | ‑sa, ‑se | ||
| 3. | Masc., | ‑san, ‑sean | ‑san, ‑sean | |
| Fem., | ‑se, ‑si | |||
