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OF AN 



IRISH-ENGLISH DICTIONARY, 



Sfc. S(c. Sfc. 



It S4 56 12 5 12_ie54 1«, 



»5- (71.) la, t«rt, dona, radharc, dall, tabhairt;- re, le, maise ; — mm, mil ; — mor, tore, onoc, donn ; — tar, loch. 



brffi, Mdh ;-edit, ceir f-ddil, deirc ;-f(i«7, ftar -.-giir, giur j-Idr, liim ; -rail, mi:-nd, ni ;-por,}j^isd j-rddA, righ j-s<ii7, »e --id, <4ud. 



bhai7«, JAidh;-ch<ii7, cA6ir i-dhdil, rfASirc ;-f h(Si7,/A6ur ■,-giidir,gheir ;-mham, mA^ur j-ph(ir,pAeisd ;-shoj7, sAearc i-thdl, theud 



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<(. &Um. <fn ceub ljtrj;i fee'n n-<f;l)c;b;;i 

 nu*)b jaojbejlTe. — The first letter of 

 the modern Irish Alphabet. It is 

 called <xjlm from the Palm-tree, and 

 the word o;Iid is derived from <i;l, 

 arms, and ejm, valiant ,■ Palm being 

 given as a token of victory, to the va- 

 liant in arms. 



In the bobel-lot of Forchern con- 

 tained in the u;i<x;cepr, and in the 

 oj<xm and bejc-lu;;^-n;on Alphabets, pre- 

 served in the books of Leacan and 

 Baliimote, b holds the first place ; and 

 the vowels follow each other in order, an 

 instance not known, it is said, in any 

 other language. According to Forchern 

 in the bobel-loc Alphabet, each letter 

 took its name from the person who 

 invented it ; but according to the be;c- 

 lu)f-njon alphabet, the names of the 

 letters are derived from trees. 



<f is one of the three broad vowels, 

 and the characteristic or leading vowel 

 of the three diphthongs *e, aj, «o, 



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and the triphthong ao;, called, by our 

 grammarians, <xiT)<x;tcojU and <im<xn- 

 co;U, i. e. Aphthongs. It has three, 

 pure analogical sounds ; the first as 

 heard in the word \<x, a day, corres- 

 ponding to the German a, and to aie 

 in English, in the word laiso, or a in 

 call: — the second as heard in the 

 word td^tc, thirst, corresponding to 

 a in the English word than : — and 

 the third as heard in the word, bona, 

 bad, corresponding to a in the word 

 menace. In the last, a is commutable, 

 in the middle and end of words, 

 with and u obscure. Independently 

 of the three pure sounds, this letter 

 has three others, mixt or diphthongal: — 

 The first is heard in the first syllable 

 of the word ^c,t>^j\c, sight ; but it 

 never has this sound in any situation, 

 except when followed in the first syl- 

 lable of a word by b or j followed by 

 a vowel or I, m, n, or j\ in the se- 

 cond syllable, as, ^i^jxc, a horn ; <Vb;iftb, 

 I. 



