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argain arəɢṇ. as prep. with its pronominal combinations asam, etc. athair ahṛ′ asal, athchuinge aᴄɪŋe. b) tarraingt ᴛaʀɪŋt, and so tarbh, dar ‘by’ in oaths, tar har and compounds, tarra ‘tar’ dara ᴛarə (the spelling descends from ind aile, the pronunciation from int aile). Crathach one named M‘Grath, tarbha ᴛaʀəꜰə, tagan, but nar thagaidh tú hȧɢə, tafant ᴛaꜰṇt (ᴛahɴ′, Com. song) dafhichid ᴅahiᴅ, stad ‘stop’ tannidhe,[1] dadam, middle Irish ttada, apstallaibh T. G. 38. Sasanach. Loan words often kept a, hence hata ‘a hat’, patan a patent, a title deed, a bpront Patain a meamram táirne (= tarraingthe) Grace song. O'Neill. This word took an infixed r and appears later in the puzzling phrase cur i bpratain to commit to writing, relate deeds. Also agam, etec when for metrical reasons accented on the first syllable.
3. a is usually preserved before a softened consonant. This of course is written ai q. v. In gabhtha = o : obair C. M. O. Here participle from gabail = ɢōl shortened before th.
4. a becomes ə in unaccented position. This is liable to take a u colour from guttural or labial (u shaped) consonants, gach aon ɢᴜ hᴇɴ, casog, ‘cassock’ ᴋᴜꜱōɢ, So a=ə the svarabhakti or vowel sign from ḷ ṃ ṇ on receiving the secondary accent becomes ᴜ under the same conditions: ansan ɴ′ꜱᴜ′ɴ, but athà san hǡ ꜱɴ′, agam əɢᴜ′ᴍ, agat əɢᴜ′ᴛ, dam ᴅᴜᴍ, : dubh P. P. 226, (not a shortened form of damhsa ᴅŪꜱə but ᴅᴍ′ accented).
5. a=nul through contraction of an unaccented syllable. salach ꜱʟȧᴄ, tar éis ᴛʀēs. a=ə in anlaut or auslaut is absorbed by a neighbouring coloured vowel. bhí cailínó oga ann vī ᴋalīnī ōɢ auɴ, chuaidh se asteach (isteach) ɢŪ, or ꜰŪ or hwŪ sē stȧᴄ, rachadsa ann ʀiᴅꜱ auɴ.
6. a makes a number of slurred diphthongs with the semi-vocalic relies of affected consonants, by contraction, and
- ↑ Of the O. I. forms tana, tanide the latter only is used in the Dēsi.
