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as if oll- Vid. derivation of Uladh in poem quoted Manners and Customs Vol. I, p. 8.
2. On receiving a yocalic increase ll, mm, nn, are separated and the original sound is not disturbed. Croma ᴋʀoᴍə, droma ᴅʀoᴍə. In drong long the anusvâra induced by a nasal has umlauted o to au, vid. § 4,1.
3. Unaccented=Ū. comharba ᴋŪərʙə, Concobhar ᴋᴜɴŪʀ. Originally unaccented prefixes retain their close sound even when they become accented. Thus the first syllables of comhursa and of commaith are sounded alike although comh in comhursa is now accented while the com of commaith is still proclitic. So iongantach Ūəɴᴛuᴄ, though now aecented on the first syllable. The pronunciation auɴᴛuᴄ T. L. in due to late accent working.
4. In Desmond sometimes=ō. comhachtach : dóchus T. G. 4, rompa : dóirse, T. G. 5, sómpla T. G. 13, Dēsi ꜱauᴍᴘʟə. ómbrach T. G. 23, Dēsi auᴍʀ′uᴄ.
5. In the Dési pronouns and prepositional pronouns are usually exempt from the action of those change laws but liom lᴜᴍ often lauᴍ in songs, ionta iɴᴛə and auɴᴛə romhat ʀauᴛ, or ʀaᴡəᴛ. In Thomond and Desmond they usually conform sinn sīŋ.
§ 6,1. î, with broad and slender consonants. y from gh, dh, broad and slender and from mh, bh slender, and the y developed by slender ll in auslaut or slender l in position changed a short root vowel (except ei=e) to î under the accent. Groups denoting the presence of this sound are usually written: -ll, -ls-, -llf(=llh), -lt-, -ghn-, dhbh-, gh, mh, bh, slender and gh, dh, flanked by a vowels or preceded by a and followed by a voiced element. The change of gh dh to y in these broad positions appears exceptional. A parallel change of broad bh to y is found in words like diabhal dīyʟ and dyouʟ, riabhach rīyuᴄ, where one may consider bh as assimilated to the following consonant and y as a glide from i. In some instances dh was originally slender. radharc from derc, adharc a
