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hin, Wdh ;-c<J«7, ceir ;-d<it/, diirc ;-f4i/, fi\a ;-gdir, gk\u \-\dr, lk\m ;-md, mk j-nd, ni ;-p(!r,peisd ;-rddA,Vigh ;-s<JW ,»t j-td, <iud. 

 bhaife, iAidh i-chiii7, cAeir ;- Skdil, dhtac ;-fh<ii7,/A£ur ;-gh(itr,;Aei r ;-mhani, mhkm ;-phdr,/)A£isd ;-sb(!tI, <Aearc ;-thiS2, <Aiud. 



3. <t. a. s. m. [Declension here accord- 

 ing to the Grammar to be prefixed.] 

 (Pun. M, a mountain.) 1. <Xj<o, cnoc. 

 2. c5ij<;i, c<i;ib<xfe. 3. JO j:5oj«;tb<i ; 

 &;tbce;m, ^ac, ;'On<x/-, ;^eun, ;^<xce- 

 mc^f, tj^eAc, bf\e)f.—AltJtudo, collis ,- 

 currus, plaustrutn, rheda ; Met rfig'- 

 wzVas, faiistitas, prosperitas. — Height, 

 hill ; car, chariot ; Fig. dignity, luck, 

 happiness, prosperity, affluence, in- 

 crease. 



1. " po;l feftm <xjcne <vjbe .;. <xtii l;oiin 

 no <i3<xm a;cne An cnr;c p. O'Cleiy. 



2. &c. (Here give authorities for the 

 other meanings.) iib is the true writing 

 of this word. 



i. <t. a. Possessive Pro7ioim. [Here shew 

 the affinities.] pO;tA;nm ^caIBac, a 

 cj<xUu; je*;^ ;^e<xlb, A B<x;)ne<x;^, 1. le;;^, 

 2. le;. 3. leo.— s^^ws, sua, suum. — 

 his, her, its, their. 



1. <tjuy b'oi;t;n fe bjreabmflwcic (<x) 

 t;je. Gen. 44. v. 1. 



2. <f jr;'- n;0;t Ajt;n ;^e ; no jo ^loj 

 (a) qeubmac. Math. 1. 25. 



3. " l^la maj/tCjf^eaiiA lean C;vo;^t: 

 An (a) njnjomA/tCAjB." T. O'Sullivan's 

 Irish Poems. 



When this letter means his, the ini- 

 tial of the noun to which it refers, if a 

 mutable consonant, requires aspira- 

 tion ; as A cApAll, fits horse, A hOjxaj; 

 his door, A CAlAm, his land : but if the 

 initial be a vowel, or any of the immu- 

 tables I, n, ^, it suffers no change ; as, 

 A 6/1, his gold, A AnAm, his soul, a liim, 

 his hand, A nAmr^b, his enemy, a ;AOJAb, 

 his choice. 



When it signifies her, the initial of 

 the noun to which it has reference, if 

 a consonant, suffers no change; as, 

 A cApAll, her horse, a bOftu^, her door ,- 

 but when a vowel is the initial, it re- 

 quires b as a prefix ; as a h-djx, her 

 gold, A b-AnAiD, her soul. 



When it signifies their, the initial, if 

 a consonant of the influenced class, will 

 require eclipsis ; as A j-CApA;U, their 

 horses, A n-bo;/i;^e their doors ,- but if 

 the initial be a vowel, it will take n 

 prefixed; as A n-Ofx, their gold; A n-A;;tj- 

 CAb, their silver. 



It has been asserted by our gram- 

 marians that when a means her or 

 their, it causes the initial of the noun 

 to which it refers, if it be either of the 

 immutables I, n or j\, to be sounded 

 double : as A Icim, her or their hand, 

 A n<X}}ie, her or their shame, A fie;m, her 

 or their course. This, however, is not the 

 case, for these letters never suffer any 

 variation in their sounds except that 

 which is peculiar to all the consonants 

 when followed by a broad , or slender 

 vowel. 



In the ablative case, when the prepo- 

 sition, which precedes this pronoun, ends 

 in a vowel, it requires n to be prefixed ; 

 but a hyphen should be placed between 

 the adventitious n and the a, thus (n-A) 

 to distinguish it from the genitive sin- 

 gular feminine, and the plural of both 

 genders, and from the conjunction n&, 

 nor, which is often found without an ac- 

 cent, and the contraction of An a, i. e. 

 nA : Example, le n-A lci;m, 5 n-A 

 j-ceA/tt; (sometimes written onA) the 

 n is used for the sake of euphony. 



5. U. a. Relative Pronomi. Invariable 

 in both numbers and genders. [Here 

 point out the affinities. J noc, nocA. — qui, 

 qiue, quod ,- quem ,- — That, who, which ; 

 whom. 



If the initial of the verb which it 

 precedes be an aspirable consonant, it 

 will require aspiration, and the inflec- 

 tion of the verb in the termination 

 must be a;^ or ea^ in the present and 

 future tenses, indicative mode, active 

 voice ; as, b^A (a) /<JA jluj jg;^ An c^ujiie ; 

 — bjA (a) cAOiTinA^ A T^le ojb/teACA ; — 

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