Elements of Galic [sic] Grammar: In Four Parts, Pàgina 1Hill, 1801 - 179 pàgines |
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ACTIVE VOICE Adjective Affirm afpirated Afpirated Form agus alfo articulations aſpirated becauſe bhuail bhuaileadh bith Bithidh broad vowel bualadh cafe ceann characteriſtic Comp Compound Tenfes confonant correfponding Dative DEFECTIVE VERBS denoting diftinction Engliſh expreffed expreffion fame fecond feems feminine fenfe ferve fhall fhort fibh fignifies fimple fing fingular finn firſt fituations fmall fome fometimes fpeech ftriking ftruck fuch fuffer fufficient fyllable Galic gender Genitive grammar Imperat Imperative Mood inferted Infinitive inftances Irish laft language Lingual lofes mafculine mo bhualadh Monofyllables Mood mòr moſt muſt Negat nominative plural Noun Nouns beginning obferved Oglach orthography Participle PASSIVE VOICE Perfonal Pronoun Pfal Plur Poffeffive Pronoun polyfyllables preceded Prefent Prepofition Preterite pronunciation quiefcent reafon reprefented righ rule Sing ſmall ſtate Subjunct Subjunctive Mood termination thefe theſe thofe thoſe thuit tion uair ufed uſed Verb vowel vowel founds word writing written
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Pàgina 47 - Eelation are made on nouns in two ways : 1. On the beginning of the noun ; 2. On its termination. The relations denoted by changes on the termination are different from those denoted by changes on the beginning ; they have no necessary connection together ; the one may take place in absence of the other.
Pàgina 62 - ... indeclinable. 1st, The article Is declined by gender, number, and case; and hence the reason, that this trifling thing has hitherto almost defied us, the Lexicographers, to define in our Dictionaries, otherwise than by styling it every thing that it is NOT. Singular. Plural. Mas. Fern. Mas. and Fern. Nom. An, am an a* na Gen. An, a' na, nan, nam Dat An, a' an a* na NB See An, am, a', articles in the Die* tionary.
Pàgina 2 - ... receive no useful knowledge whatever except through the channel of their native tongue, will probably be of opinion that the Gaelic ought at least to be tolerated. Yet these too may condemn as useless, if not ultimately detrimental, any attempt to cultivate its powers, or to prolong its existence. Others will entertain a different opinion. They will judge from experience, as well as from the nature of the case, that no measure merely of a literary kind will prevail to hinder the progress of the...
Pàgina 7 - Vowel sounds may be long or short. A long Vowel is often marked with an accent, especially when the quantity of the Vowel determines the meaning of the word ; as...
Pàgina 144 - Rinn mis' an scian gheur' / made t/ie sharp knife : here the Adjective agrees with the noun, for it modifies the Noun, distinguishing that knife from others. 'Rinn mis
Pàgina 6 - ... diftributing the various parts of a language into their feveral clafles, and impofing names on them, we ought always to be guided by the nature of that language, and to guard againft adopting, with inconfiderate fervility, the diftributions and technical terms of another. This caution is the more neceflary, becaufe, in our refearches into the grammar of any particular tongue, we are apt to follow implicitly the order of the Latin grammar, on which we have been long accuftomed to fix our attention,...
Pàgina 137 - OF CONCORD UNDER Concord is to be considered the Agreement of the Article with its Noun, of the Adjective with its Noun, of a Pronoun with its Antecedent, of a Verb with its Nominative, and of one Noun with another. AGREEMENT OF THE ARTICLE AND NOUN The Article agrees with its Noun in Gender, Number, and Case.
Pàgina 123 - ... already observed, often loses d altogether and is written a; as, dol a Dhuneidin going to Edinburgh. When the Preposition is thus deprived of its articulation and only a feeble obscure Vowel sound is left, another corruption very naturally follows, and this Vowel also is discarded not only in speaking, but even in writing ; as, chaidh e Dhuneidin he went to Edinburgh, where the Noun appears in its aspirated form without any word to govern it.
Pàgina 37 - Airgiod) as we now write it, never ufcd to change a Vowel but in declining of Words, &c. And I don't know that it was ever done in any other Language, unlefs by fome particular Perfons who through miftake or ignorance were guilty of it...
Pàgina 2 - By learning to read and to understand what he reads, in his native tongue, an appetite is generated for those stores of science which are accessible to him -only through the medium of the English language. Hence an acquaintance with the English is found to be necessary, for enabling him to gratify his desire after further attainments.