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"8. "Words formed by inserting air, aur, ur : 

 dairet, 'to thee,' Ir. deit. 

 duirih, ' to them,' Ir. doib. 

 daurub, 'to you,' Ir. duib. 

 daurun, ' a fort,' Ir. dun. 

 durunad, 'to close,' Ir. dunad. 

 anduire, ' yesterday,' Ir. ande (Old Ir. inde). 

 anduiriu, 'to-day,' Ir. andiu (Old Ir. indiu). 



" Examples of words formed by substituting one letter for another 

 are: — 



5 for t or tk : 

 ca/romr, 'fringe,' Ir. eorrthair. 

 brasach, 'buttermilk,' Ir. blathach. 

 muin(ro)sa/r, 'family,' Ir. muinter; 

 and others, perhaps, but I have only one example of each. 



" A third species of this artificial production of new words is, per- 

 haps, exemplified by 



ferim, 'true,' It. fir. 

 tinim, ' fire,' Ir. tene. 

 loisi, ' with him,' Ir. his. 



' ' The manufacture of new words by the addition of a syllable was 

 called formolad. Where a letter only was added (e. g. tenn ' fire,' from 

 the Old Irish ten), the process was termed doiclmed. See the preface 

 to the Amra Choluimcliille, in the Lebor-na-hJJidre, and H. 2. 16, 

 where also cennachros is given as the name of the process of fabricating 

 a word by substituting one letter for another, e. g. fenchas for senchas. 



" The Chevalier Mgra, referring to the Duil Laitline, writes as fol- 

 lows : — ' Nous avons en Piemont, dans le Yal-Soana, un jargon sem- 

 blable fabrique sur la base d'un patois qui a conserve beaucoup 

 d'elemens celtiques.' It is highly desirable that some specimens of 

 this jargon should be published, and that the circumstances under 

 which it is used should be clearly ascertained.' r 



