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system of Cat. depended a good deal on the word-picture. Mumha ᴍŪ, gen. Mumhan ᴍŪəɴ. chum .|. dochum is pronounced ᴄᴜɴ and ᴄŪɴ according to the accent. dar ndoigh thá me chum é dheanadh ᴅᴀʀ ɴŪ hǡ mə ᴄŪɴ ē yiáɴə, chum é mharbhadh ᴄoɴ ē ᴠȧʀŪ.
5. u=au under conditions mentioned § 4. puncamhail ᴘauɴᴋŪʟ from punctum, suncum, sancum? ꜱauɴᴋᴍ′, thá sé baint s. as a(n) gcnámh hǡ sē ʙȧnt ꜱ. aꜱ a ɢɴǡᴠ, said of a dog enjoying a bone, M. int ungar ⁊ int ocras ɴ′ ᴛauɴɢʀ′, T. L. Eng. ‘hunger’. Eng. ‘young’ pron. īᴜɴ is sometimes yauɴ, ‘Jim’ yauɴ = sēmus óg, stumpa ꜱᴛauᴍᴘə, Eng. ‘stump’.
6. u=e in rud ʀeᴅ and ʀoᴅ O. I. rét. A shortened form was torn from unaccented position in aonrét to aorred ᴇʀəᴅ and a under second accent to o with dental. Cf. agam where ə to ᴜ with a labial. duit ᴅot and ᴅet. Vid. ui.
7. u rarely =i, cumadh : ionadh P. P. 29. Not a sure stance for ion- is often ᴜɴ- but cumag : oinig T. G. 48. where o is umlauted to i.
u=ȧ in muna bfuil ᴍȧʀə; muna mbeidh (eadh!) = O. I. main bed shows contraction and loss of u on account of the attracted accent ᴍrȧᴄ.
2. The Long Vowels.
á
§ 15, 1. á=ǡ rarely ā. grádh, áthas ǡhiꜱ, atá, lán gurrán ɢʀǡɴ, a grove, garrán a(n) bhile the grove of the (remarkable) bush, garrdán in mhuirris now Garden-a-Morris near Cill in the Dēsi, Garrán fada now Graunfodda. cnáb from canăb- the first a lost as in garrán before the accent (§ 2, 2, 1.) which was attracted by the heavy b ending. Hence the lengthening of a. bráca a way-side bothy for the fever-stricken, ádh.
2. a=ǡ often with or through contraction; bog pál ‘hit the road’, from pábhail, Eng. paving = pavement, M. Song.
