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OF THE GAELIC LANGUAGE.
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it from mutach without reference to miotag. Ir. has muthóg (Con.).
mùth, change, M.W. mudaw; from Lat. mûto, I change.
N
n-, from, in a nuas, a nìos, Ir., O. Ir. an-; see a number 5.
na, not, ne, Ir., O. Ir. na: used with the imperative mood solely. It is an ablaut and independent form of the neg. prefix in (see ion-, an-), an ablaut of I. E. nê, Lat. nê, Gr. νη-; shorter from Lat. nĕ-, Got. ni, Eng. not (ne-á-wiht), etc.; further I. E. ṇ-, Gr. ἀν-, Lat. in-, Eng. un-, Gaelic an-. See nach, which is connected herewith as Gr. οὐκ, οὐ; the W. is nac, nag, with imperative, Br. na.
na, or, vel, Ir. ná, E. Ir., O. Ir. nó, W. neu: *nev (Stokes, who allies it to Lat. nuo, nod, Gr. νεúω, Skr. návate, go remove; but, in 1890, Bez. Beit.16 51, he refers it to the root nu, Eng. now). It can hardly be separated from neo, otherwise, q.v. Strachan agrees.
na, than, Ir. ná, M. Ir. iná, E. Ir. inda, indás, O. Ir. ind as, indás, pl. indate (read indáte); from the prep. in and tá, to be (Zeuss2, 716-7, who refers to the other prepositional comparative conjunction oldaas, from ol, de). The use of in in O. Ir. as the relative locative may also be compared.
na, what, that which, id quod, M. Ir. ina, ana, inna n-, E. Ir. ana n-; for an a, O. Ir. rel. an (really neuter of art.) and G. rel a, which see. Descent from ni or ni, without any relative, is favoured by Book of Deer, as do ni thíssad, of what would come. Possibly from both sources.
'na, 'na-, in his, in her, in (my); the prep. an with the possessive pronouns: 'nam, 'nar, 'nad (also ad, E. Ir. at, it), 'nur, 'na, 'nan.
nàbaidh, nàbuidh, a neighbour; from the Norse nà-búi, neighbour, "nigh-dweller", the same in roots as Eng. neighbour.
nach, not, that not (conj.), that not = quin (rel), noone? Ir., E. Ir. nach, W. nac, nag, not, Br. na: *nako, from na, not, which see above, and ko or k as in Gr. οὐκ against οὐ (Stokes). The ko has been usually referred to the same pronominal origin as -que in Lat. neque; it does appear in neach.
nàdur, nature, Ir. nádúr, W. natur; from Lat. natura.
naid, a lamprey (Sh., O'B.), Ir. naid:
naidheachd, news, Ir. núaidheachd, W. newyddion; from nuadh, new.
nàile, yea! an interjection:
