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ꜰǡl fághbháil, ʟǡəꜱ lámhas, T. L. láig 3 per pret. rámha D. R. 98, gádha ib. 99. táirne=tabhairne a ‘tavern’, táirne =táraingthe, O’Neil, sáthas ꜱǡəꜱ, T. G. (Des.) tláthas ᴛʟǡꜱ, C. M. O. (Thom.) lághach ʟǡᴄ, portcladhach ᴘᴜʀᴛʟǡᴄ, now ‘Portlaw’, adhamh ǡᴠ, T. G. 19, amhgar ǡɢʀ′ with syllablic division separating mh from g. Otherwise it should be auɢʀ′. Cf. adh-bhar ǡᴠʀ but adhbhar ouʀ. Maighistear : crádh T. G. 8, Dēsi ᴍoiꜱᴛʀ′.
3. a contracts irregularly in the word námha an enemy owing to the mixing of cases. ɴōᴅ Carrick-Shock song. (gen. become nominative) ɴǡᴅ P. Denn. ɴŪᴅ pl. ɴŪᴅə, S. R. ɴouᴅ, Com. song,: domhan, P. Denn 86. novid : a gaithib, ib. 63, numhid ib. 66 naoid ib. 66 pl.? le naimhde : clí-gheal Sheehy, dá naimhde : ī Anna, : dithcheall C. M. O. 16, namhad : áird P. P. 142.
4. a appears in some words=a. In the western Dēsi ǡ in place names and surnames=ā when speaking English. Cullinane ᴋolṇāɴ, leanán lṇāɴ, cúl dubhán? ᴋᴜʟ ᴅəᴠāɴ. So in Eng. ‘water’, ‘morning’ are ᴡāᴛʀ′ ᴍārnṇ. From contraction baile-atha-cliath ʙlāklī, meadhón māɴ. coimend O. I. comét? is kimāᴅ. bán=a grass field about to be ploughed up, is ʙǡɴ when one speaks Irish but ʙāɴ as a loan word in Eng. Even so the place and personal names like Affane, Cullinan, as afān, etc. are used only in speaking Eng. ā being looked upon as less vulgar and Irish than ǡ. When a further grade of gentility is reached people so unfortunate as to possess a name with -án auslaut make the last refinement and change ā to ē, like Eng. ā in ‘fate’. Then Cullinan becomes ᴋolṇēɴ, etc. In Cass. 143 are found ansa niomlaan, go hiomlaan, le hiomlaan and chiomaad, The last word still sounded with ā gives a key to the phonetic value of aa and therefore á in certain instances had not gone over to ǡ in the beginning of the present century in Tipperary. O. I.
