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tt5<tc for nsd-D, be-nc for he-a-^, corolaii for c(TOt<ic, <tric for <t|tT3. 

 They also substituted cte- for <io, <i^ for <to) and oj for <to) as xteT) 

 for itOT), Cixe-t for c<tot, and b<tj and even bo) for ixtO). In old 

 books they also wrote e for <i ; as "Dje- for "Ojct, c)e- for c)<t, and such 

 others : They also wrote indifferently <i, o and r one for another at 

 the end of a word ; as, {om\3l<i, {otn-plo, {om\3lu, &c." 



Thus far the Preface. — The words and explanations are printed 

 in the Irish character, and most of them are to be found in the sub- 

 sequent publications of Lluyd and O'Brien. 



LLUYD's IRISH DICTIONARY— Folio— Oxford, 1707. 



The next Dictionary of our language published was the Latin, 

 British and Irish comparative vocabulary of Lluyd and his Irish- 

 English Dictionary, to be found in his Archceologia, in the year 

 1707. This work can never be sufficiently appreciated, or too 

 highly praised, and is deserving the Etymologist's closest attention. 

 It is, however, to be regretted, that it is not more copious, and that it 

 omits the derivations and other accidents of our language in the 

 Irish-English part 



MAC CURTIN's ENGLISH-IRISH DICTIONARY :-^ 



Quarto — Paris, 1732. 



This is the only English-Irish Dictionary extant, (except an 

 abridgment for the use of schools,) and it is used only for want of a 

 better. The English words are now, for the most part, quaint and 

 obsolete ; but there are some Irish words interspersed, which the 

 Irish-English Lexicons do not contain. A good English-Irish 



