Imatges de pàgina
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so far retained, that the adventitious letters are passed over, with an almost imperceptible flexion of the voice.

In like manner d and g, which, always in the beginning of words, and frequently in the middle, have a clear and strong sound, are very commonly used at the end, merely to give a fuller vowel cadence to the termination; as, neartuġad, to strengthen, rig, a king.

ORTHOGRAPHICAL TABLES.

Familiar words of one syllable.

Aspirated consonants.

Mo mac, my son

mo bàs, my death
ro beag, very small
an bean, the woman
mo beul, my mouth
mo bonn, my sole
mo meall, my knob
mo mian, my desire
mo biad, my meat
an mias, the dish
cnáim, a bone
sliab, a mountain
naom, a saint

neam, heaven

dub, black

deilb, a form

sgéim, beauty

uaim, a grave

tarb, a bull

dam, an or

cnum, a worm cnob, a maggot mo dia, my God mo corp, my body faid, a prophet

criad, clay

fuact, cold

tuaid, north
fliuċ, wet
dríuct, dew
liaig, a physician
noct, night
mo ceann, my head
mo súil, my eye
mo cos, my foot
mo śrón, my nose
ruad, reddish
uct, the breast
grad, love
fiad, decr
deoć, a drink
lact, milk
mead, Meath
nuad, new
mag, a field
beac, a bee
fiaċ, a crow
eać, a horse
crod, a portion
seact, seven
oct, eight

deić,

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c, g, m, and t before n. déirc, alms

Gne, a kind

cno, a nut

súist, a flail

cuing, a yoke stóir, a store

mna, of a woman

tnút, envy

slinn, a slate

do mnaoi, to a woman

builg, bellows

cnap, a knob

cnoc, a hill

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gual, a coal
Túb, a link
scuab, a broom
fiad, venison

luċ, a mouse
lus, an herb
donn, brown
spré, a portion
aon, one
tirm, dry
bo, a cow
or, gold
plúr, flour
bfuil tu? are you
raib me, I was

ainm, a name

beid me, I will be

lorg, a trace

glás, green
crann, a tree
fág, leage
so, this
sin, that
siad, they
ruinn, a division
chum, to

a ngár, near
a bfad, far
garg, fierce
faoi, under

suas, up síos, down suid, sit

léig,

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