NOTES. 



The language of our text is modern-Irish with some middle-Irish peculiarities still 

 remaining, many of which are, however, merely of an orthographical nature. Thus the 

 tenuis has often been retained where in modern-Irish it has sunlc to the media, as e. g. 

 octis now and then occurs written out for the modern agus. Again, the old diphthong o/ 

 is still represented by ae, not by ao, as in the modern language. 

 In the verb we may notice the following forms : 



Pres. indic. active sg. i : adchn 958. sg. 2 : dochi 790. sg. 3 : dober se 755, ni tabhair' 



767, nach tahhair 621, ni fobair 622, rel. dlighus 80. 678, cinnus 772. pl. 3: nach 



fobraid 663, ataid 991. donid 1024. Secondary pres. Sg. 2. da marbtha-sa 150, tigthea ib. 



t-preterite, sg. 3 : rofiarfacht 25, adubert, adbert pass., doriacht 294. 



The s-preterite is of constant occurrence, especially in the ^rd pers. sg. Absolute 

 form: reathais, beannoghis, fiarfaighis. Deponential form : ro dunastair, ro gabasdair, 

 &c. sg. I : dorinnus 98, sg. 2 : do gheallais 66. 



Perf. sg, i: adchuala 140, do connac 434. sg. 2: da 71-dheachair 156. sg. 3: do 

 chuala 137, 306, tii fara 720, do connairc 297, tainic, rainic pass., torcair 454, dochuaidh 

 22g, fuair pass. pl. 3 : do conncadar 186. 432, do chualadar 641, tangadar, rangadar pass., 

 torcradar 388, adrorcradar [sic] 768, docuadar 417. 



s-future, sg. 3 : atre in the phrase : atre buaidh 7 beannachtain 224, deach 606, which 

 form allows us to print the ^rd pers. pl. deach%didi 717, co ti 159. 



Redupl. future, sg. i : dogen 26, dingean 217, imer 366, berad 27, ader-sa 159. sg. 3 : 

 geba 414, doghtna 385, dobhera 322. pl. 3 : doghenaid 215. 



Secondary forms, sg. 3 : do lemadh 310, dingebad. pl. i, ni bhermais 608. 

 In the passive voice the most important forms are : 



Secondary pres. sg. 3 : do duiscti (>i,ge marbthai 173, da curthai 704, da m-beanta 956. 

 t-preterite sg. 3 : frith 166, 386, dobreith 973, do clos 398, adclos 440. nifacus, do bas 630 

 are formed by analogy to t- and s-stems. 



Secondary redupl. future, sg. 3 : do digemthai 602. 



s-future sg. 3 : co roistir 762. 



The verbal particle ro is still in vigorous use like do and 0. In the passive these 

 particles never aspirate the forms to which thcy are prefixed, a rule which is strictly 

 carried out in all middle-Irish MSS. from the Leabhar na hUidhre downwards'. 

 There are instances of this use in the old-Irish glosses which I have collected elsewhere. 



^ It is evident, then, that Stokes' conjecture (Togail Troi, p. xiii.) about the non-aspiration of 

 ro in such forms as ro tncait, &c. cannot be maintaincd. 



