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=tromm, comm M. song, com singeán = comm a lake name in the Dēsi, cóll, fogha, tomhas, bodhradh, ᴋouʟhᴜᴄ condit. of codlaim, Bob. ᴅouᴛ = Eng. ‘doubt’ and ʙouᴛĪ ‘sometimes’ is pl. of Eng. ‘bout’.
14. o which should be ou irregularly = au through nasal influence. long ʟauɴ, contabhairt ᴋauɴᴛŪrt, Walsh (once in song) contae ᴋauɴᴛᴇ, Eng. ‘county’, anonn əɴauɴ, drong ᴅʀauɴ, pl. ᴅʀoɴə. romham and romhut should be reamham etc. and so the pronunciation goes back to the older form. „buil fhios agat cad athá do bhríste (d)á rádh“? was a question asked of a knock-kneed man with a new corduroy breeches „ni fheadar.“ „Rachad-sa reamhat-sa, rachad-sa reamhad-sa!“ ʀîᴅꜱə ʀauᴛꜱə.
§ 14, 1. u accented = ᴜ. muc, do chur, muthall a ‘mop’ of hair on the head, putal a cherub, futa-fata, hurry, confusion, sruth ꜱʀᴜᴄ, gen. srotha ꜱʀohə, musdar, P. P. 228, bun, puthaoil belching. The ending variously written -aoil, -ighil is attached to all verbal nouns denoting soughing or sibilation. feadaighil whistling, glugaoil the escaping of air bubbles on steeping clothes in water, (glugar an addled egg from its sound when shaken) plubaoil the rattling of water in shoes, etc.
2. u unaccented = ə. cróchur ᴋʀōᴄṛ a bier, mo ghrádh fém tu ᴛə, a dtuigeann tú me, əᴅigṇ ᴛə mə, solus ꜱoʟis from s. By metathesis turas ᴛʀᴜꜱ D. R. 106.
3. u before the accent=nul. currach ᴋʀȧᴄ, fuláir (= furáil) ꜰʟǡr′.
4. u=Ū by contraction. rugadh to rughag and ʀŪɢ, heard once from a man of the Dēsi (S. R.) while reciting a poem of Thom. origin, cubhra? ᴋŪʀhə, subhach ꜱŪᴄ, T. G. 57, dubhach ᴅŪᴄ. Before r in position súgradh : dúil M. song, ordinarly ꜱᴜɢṛ in the Dēsi; ṛ opened position. lughaide ʟîədə, Dēsi. Terminations of verbal nouns in -ughadh Ū- or Ūᴡə, as the sound stream is continued until the lips regain the natural position. umhail Ūəl, ul Cat. 22, uval ib. 27. The phonetic
