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, neartugad, 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 fáid, a prophet

criad, clay

fuact, cold
tuaid, north
fliuċ, wet
dríuct, dew
liaig, a physician
noċt, 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
beać, a bee
fiaċ, a crow
eac, a horse
crod, a portion
seact, seven
oct, eight

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céir, wax.

féil, a vigil

féin, self réid, ready céim, a degree

fuar, cold

cluas, ear gruag, hair fual, urine

uan, a lamb

cuan, a bay cruac, a rick

cuać, a cuckoo

cuag, a daw

fáil, a ring

sráid, a street

iúr,

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fios, knowledge crios, a girdle, fionn, fair

bior, a spit

leis, with him
ceis, a sow

ceist, a question
sail, a beam
staid, a state
sailm, a psalm
caile, chalk
cairt, paper

straif, white thorn cait, of a cat

toit, smoke

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slait, of a rod

deas, south

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fear, a man ceann, a head

sean, old

geal, white breac, speckled

gean, love

Triphthongs.

caoin, fine
aois, age
maoil, bald
naoi, nine
aoi, an island

fearg, anger

dearg, red

aoib, courteous

leact, a tomb

feoil, flesh

beann, a high top

stiuir, a rudder

speal, a scythe

ciuin, gentle

peann, a pen

cuairt, a visit

cearc, a hen

cead, first

treas, third fuil, blood

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uair, an hour

fuaim, a sound uaim, a cave duais, a reward

luaït, speed liaig, a physician

C,

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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

gual, a coal

lúb, a link scuab, a broom

stóir, a store

mna, of a woman

slinn, a slate

do mnaoi, to a woman

builg, bellows

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fiad, venison

luc, 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 fag, leave 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

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