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in the production of slurred diphthongs. aghaidh îə, logha ʟou, lou Cat. 76, feighil fᴇil. In aghaidh apparently broad gh=y but the O. I. form was agid and a must have been umlauted before the contraction. §§ 4, sqq. Here gh is treated exactly as dh. togha ᴛou, but ppp. toghtha ᴛoꜰə, and cond. pass. toghfaidhe ᴛoꜰĪ. C. M. O. 11. In one place of C. M. O. toghtha:foghluim and therefore ᴛouəhə as if th was joined by a svar. vowel. In toghtha w was provected to f by h. For a similar shortening cf. ᴛoʀᴍ′ from ᴛouʀ.
10. gh broad in anlant=ʏ, slender=y. So dh broad and slender. mo ghrádh do ghalar, ᴍᴜ ʏʀǡ ᴅᴜ ʏȧʟʀ ‘I wish I had your complaint’ mar gheall air ᴍȧʀ yauʟ er.
11. g is provected to c in fut. and cond. ní léigfinn nī likiŋ, sloigfinn C. M. O. 13 ꜱʟɪkiŋ. So with th, tógtha, ᴛōkaha, with slender c. Auslaut hardening in comrac, craorac, aisiog and aisioc.
12. gh=y falls away before h in -ighthe ppp. endings of -ighim verbs, Also g is wanting in tionsnainn, Ren. 76 P. 16 end, dá thionsgailt ǡ houꜱɢɪlt M. song.
13. g after s is voiced in inlaut, unvoiced by auslaut hardening in auslaut. sgairt ꜱɢȧrt, sgeul sgīȧl, but tásg ᴛǡꜱᴋ, rúisg ʀŪsk.
14. g in ag=g or ge, suffixed pronoun form for simple prep.
15. gh in tiugh=v. This was a spirans thrown off from the lip-rounding of u. So ogh ᴜᴠ. Vid. Pedersen Aspirationen i Irsk p. 15.
16. g arises from c under nasal affection. i gcorp ə ɢoʀᴘ. The occasional change of the prep. de to ge has been mentioned.
The Liquids.
§ 53,1. ɴ the dental sound. The tongue is in the same position as for ᴛ, ᴅ; sometimes it is strongly nasal naomh ɴᴇᴠ, where the nasality of ᴠ affected it by anticipation, so ʟ in lámh.
