u 



<r. 



<f. 



(n.) la, l«rt 



doni, radhare, dall, tabhairt ; — re, le, maise ;— min, mil ; — mor, tore, onoc^ ' " " 



ODOo, donn ; — tar, laeb. 



adoration ; Ablacab, burying, &c. it cor- 

 responds with y in the word thy : — The 

 second and third sounds are peculiar 

 to Munster, and the districts adjoining 

 it; the second sound is given by the 

 Momonians, when it is followed in the 

 first syllable of a dissyllabic word 

 by U, m or n ; as bftll a member, am 

 time, fO-nJeeble ; this sound resembles 

 that of a in the English word than and 

 00 in the word pool, sounded as closely 

 and rapidly together as possible: the 

 third sound is heard, when <x is followed 

 in the first syllable of a word by b or 

 m followed by a vowel or I, n or ]i, 

 as heard in the words c<xb<x;;t, <iiT)l*jb, 

 5<xmna, <xm;i<x;^, &c. corresponding to 

 <m in the English word sour, aud in 

 some districts they give it the sOund of 

 00, as Heard in the English word joooZ. 

 The Conacians and Ultonians, in these 

 cases, give <i the analogical second 

 sound, as heard in the word t<x;tc 

 thirst :■ and they are justifiable in 

 doing so on pure principles of ana- 

 logy. 



These diphthongal sounds of a and 

 the 4th of 0, as marked in the scale 

 of the vowels at the head of the page, 

 and the sounds of e<x and )0 in the 

 »iame situations as <x and o, described 

 above ; sounding /t for n, as c^cim for 

 cji&.m; and in some places n for ^, as 

 bnu;^ for *;<«)/•; — C like g, as ;^;tuc 

 pronounced by some y*/ittc ; n;;oir, ^oc ; 

 cjoc, cjoc, &c. — and b when at the 

 termination of verbs is sounded in 

 certain tenses and moods by the Mo- 

 monians, as J, c, b and m. These, 

 with the position of the accent are, in 

 a great measure, the cause of that di- 

 versity of pronunciation which is pecu- 

 liar to the inhabitants of the respective 

 districts of Ireland. 



This letter has several meanings, and i 



varies its sound to express many of 

 them. 



3 



1. a. a. Article, — (Hebrew n, he, Greek 

 «', », T«,) the. 



This is a contracted mode of 

 writing the article oin, and in that case 

 it should be apostrophized, thus, (a',) to 

 point out the omission of the n, and 

 to prevent the ambiguity, which other- 

 wise would attend it, if not distinguished 

 from the other parts of speech which it 

 has the power to express : — 



Example, tiijnjc (<x) peA/i C/iean, 

 for ciijnjc (ftn) fea^ t/teun. 



The former means, " Her mighty man 



The latter 



came. 



" The mighty man 



A writer, tlierefpirei if he intend to 

 avoid ambiguity, in his style, should be 

 cautious not to write the article in that 

 contracted manner. In ancient MSS. 

 it is often written y, jn, jh and ;n&. 



When the article <xn precedes a noun 

 masculine in the Genitive case singu- 

 lar, whose initial letter is a vowel, or 

 p followed by a vowel, or I or ;<, some 

 writers abusively divide it, leaving the 

 letter a alone, and joining the n to the 

 noun, without even an apostrophe or 

 hyphen between tiiem which might 

 serve to shew that n does not radically 

 form part of the noun. Ex. lon;tab <x 

 r)oj^, literally, " the splendour of M«V 

 gold," though the meaning intended 

 to he coiWQytd^ is, the splendor of the 

 Gold J — fee;;te<kb « np6jiT)«j;i, end of 

 the harvest. These should be lon/«vb 

 an d)j\, — t)^)j\^«.i) an p6jm<xj;<. 



2. <f . a. s. f. Taken materially or for it- 

 self. It is called a;Im, the JElm or 

 Palm-Tree. 



