Grammar of the Gaelic languageBarlow, 1808 - 201 pàgines |
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1st pers acar acas accent ACTIVE VOICE Adjective Adverbs añ fer Article beit čata cause Aspiration cenn Cipenn compound concord CONDITIONAL MOOD consonant CONSUETUDINAL cúig Dative Declension do'n duit Eclipsis féin feminine Fian fičit Finn formed by adding fuap fuil Gaelic gañ genitive IMPERATIVE MOOD Indic INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE lám last vowel Lochlin móp mór Náč níp Nominative Noun O'Hussey Ogham old MSS PASSIVE VOICE PLURAL poets polysyllables prefixed Preposition Preter Preterite Preterite.-Do pron Pronoun Quartan Relative form Relative.-Nác root rule siad siñ sing SINGULAR sinn Slán small sound SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD syllable T. D. O'Higgin táim Tenses termination thee thou tormented trí triphthong Verb verse vowel word
Passatges populars
Pàgina vi - ... politest courts of Asia; and a number of admirable works have been written in it by historians, philosophers, and poets, who found it capable of expressing with equal advantage the most beautiful and the most elevated sentiments. It must seem strange, therefore, that the study of this language should be so little cultivated at a time when a taste for general and diffusive learning seems universally to prevail ; and that the fine productions of a celebrated nation should remain in manuscript upon...
Pàgina x - A consonant, as has been shown, has its broad sound, both when preceded and when followed by a broad vowel ; and in like manner has its small -sound, both when preceded and when followed by a small vowel. If a consonant were preceded by a vowel of one quality, and followed by one of a different quality, the reader, it has been thought, might be doubtful whether that consonant ought to be pronounced with its broad or with its small sound.
Pàgina 116 - May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing to you, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.
Pàgina 116 - ... it deep in dark disastrous night ! Since by his deeds the state must rise or fall, He should incline to hear th' advice of all. . . . A king, as many a sage hath truly told, If he his pow'r by tyranny uphold, Must blast the public welfare and his own; — He sacrifices not himself alone ! — Death, want, and famine ghastly stalk around, And rapine's voice is heard with horrid sound, Plague, war and blood, disaster and defeat, The rage of elements, the crash of fate, The bane of anarchy — destructive...
Pàgina 112 - Rinn mis' an scian geur," J made the knife sharp ; here the adjective does not agree with the noun, for it modifies not the noun but the verb. It does not characterize the object on which the action is performed ; but it combines луцЬ the verb in specifying the nature of the operation performed.
Pàgina xii - Gaelic iomhaidh, teampull, leabhar. Nothing but a servile observance of the rule could have suggested the insertion of a broad vowel in the first syllable of these words, where it serves neither to guide the pronunciation, nor to indicate the derivation. quiescent consonant:—thus in...
Pàgina v - ... elegant ; it has been spoken for many ages by the greatest princes in the politest courts of Asia; and a number of admirable works have been written in it by historians, philosophers, and poets, who found it capable of expressing with equal advantage the most beautiful and the most elevated sentiments. It must seem strange, therefore, that the study of this language should be so little cultivated at a time when a taste for general and diffusive learning seems universally to prevail ; and that...
Pàgina 158 - With ravish' d ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod And seems to shake the spheres. The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes ! Sound the trumpets, beat the drums...
Pàgina 175 - Hafiz ! 8 when thou composest verses, thou seemest to make a string of pearls. Come, sing them sweetly ; for the heavens seem to have shed on thy poetry the clearness and beauty of the Pleiades.
Pàgina 115 - Person ;* and the Nominative, whether Noun or Pronoun, is ordinarily placed after the Verb ; as...