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2. Anlaut lathach Lahuc, ar nis na luiche er NOs na tiho as the mouse does, [dé La.
3. vt reduced by voealic affection retains its guttural timbre but becomes alveolar. Cluain geal meala mata, a bhealaigh 9 vata gen. of bealach. In such cases the short a acquires a tincture of o colouring.
4, <A slender reduced | appears in conjunction with y having the sound of Italian gl. fi ghleo fi 1%, Sedan 6 Duibhir a ghleanna ylana, fliuch flyve.
5. Wl broad affected may be distinguished from 7 in the same situation. It seems to have retained more of the dental and less of the guttural character. galla-phuic cata-rik, ar bhalla-chrith er vata cri, trembling. :
6. JU has the additional character of nasality in lamh. For description it will be enough to say that the nasal passage is open during its production and that it ean be best imitated by sounding an n before it.
7. l=n in ni fhuil nin. The writing ni dhfeil which postulates nasal affection can have deseended only from nichonfil, the sound -as far as 1 am aware is everywhere regular from nifhuil.
8... Lis assimilated to r. dealradh daur, siolrach siguc. In C. M. O. .parrthas béis ‘paralysis’ of death comes through paralios, parlios, parr-, with a th=h developed after rr, Parahis. At present its shape corresponds with parrthas from Paradisus.
9. 1 takes d, n,.in assimilation. muinleach w0luc, codladh KOLO. 10. HW broad gave off a svar. vowel in certain contexts. galla-phoc P. P. 170, malla-roisg ib. 148, batlu-chrioth.
li. UW in auslaut or / in position produced slurred diphthongs mall, maur, cill, kil. $§ 4. 6,1.
m i § 56,1. m broad m; slender m. Broad. méthair mahr’,
