Atkinson — Two Inflexional Forms of the Verb in Irish. 431 
Nothing can be more certain and uniform than the usage 
in reference to the relative form, as exhibited by the above 
examples ; cf. also p. xviii., in the Appendix to the Keating, 
where I have stated briefly the usage that prevails throughout. 
In clauses O'MoUoy observes the same distinctions : 
cf. the examples: — 
p. 18, i6 cjAeu'o ciAilAi§eAf An ^ocaI im, 
but 18, X ClAeUt) ClAttAlglt) 11A fOCAlt lit). 
In the subordinate clause, a plural n am in. demands -1*0 : — 
68, w CI 01111 Af cioc|- AIT) ; 89, 12 cionriAf -jbeACAigit) ha lieiujMceA'OA. 
In ?i^/zo-clauses, he uses the form -^f rightly with 2)lural 
nom.: — thus, 26, z ha. puinc beA.nxs-p -pi-p 'oix\'6acu, 'the 
points that treat of the divinity.' 
Taking Dunlevy's Catechism [Paris, 1742] we find the same 
definite usage :- — 
1. The relat. form in -Af [-eAf] has very frequently "oo prefixed, p. 2, neicib, 
•oo beAriAf -pe ; 6, "Oia, "oo -ooinueAf ; 52 pt) be do "bjAifeAf, &c. ; but also, 
54 cj\eti*o e, ctiiiAeA-p; 60 Arhuil foillfigeAf fe, &c. 
2. It is used with Ind sg., 26, 44 cjAeut) (e), ctngeAf cu ; 52 ftije, -oo jtACA]' 
cu ; 58 cionriAf "oo c|\tictii§eAf cu, &c. 
3. It is not used imvhom-clauseswith.pl. subj., 36 c|\eiit) "oo ciAtbtn^it) iia 
focAit-fe; 16 5ti|v c]Aoin -co foeACAigi'o aii ctAiin; 48 riA -piAncA, locfAiT); 
nor in the s2<5or(^ma^e clauses, 68 if o'n "Obt, geibit) jac eotuf; but constantly 
with plural subject, in w?Ao-clauses, 80 riA liAiceAncA -00 beAtiAf -pif. ' 
4. It is not used with other persons : 80 ah SjAAt), "oo -otigiin't) a -pottif, U|v4 a 
5C|\ei'oitni''o. 
5. It is not used with the double-flexion verbs, p. 46, T)|Atiin5, "oo ^eib bA|" ; 
48 riA 'OAOine, -00 §eib bAf ; 4 ah UAti 'oo bei|A Ai|\e. 
In the Grospel of St. John this relative form in (-e^f), 
, --pe^-p, occurs more than a hundred times — about twice as 
many cases of the present as of the future — as follows : — 
Fres., A-o^AAf, 4, 24 ; AicmgeAf, 1, 48 (cu) ; 10,15 ; bAineAf, 4,36-; bAifoeAf, 
1» 33 ; bei|veAf, 5, 39 ; beomngeAf, 5, 21 ; 6, 33 ; bi'of, 3, 36 ; 5, 7 ; cluineAf, 
6,45; coitueA-OAf, 14,21; cpei-oeAf, 1,I2 ; 3,16,18,36; 6,24; 6,35,40,47; 
7,38; 11,25,26; 12,442,46; 14,12; cuitAeAf, 7, 18; 8,46; -oAOiAAf, 12,48; 
[•oeAriAf, 12,26;] -oiulcuigeAf, 12,48; -ouipjeAi", 5, 21 ; eigifieAf, 1,23; 
eifoeAf, 3, 29 ; 5, 24 ; 12, 47 ; f AUAf, 15, 5 ; foglomAr, 6, 45 ; tofSW^ 10, 3 ; 
tr.eA5t\Af, 18, 22(cu); gAbAf, 13, 202 ; glACAf, 3,33; jtAA-ouigeAf, 10,17; 
12,25; 14,21,23; lAjAjAAr, 4, 9 (cu), 27 (cu) ; 7,4,18; 8,50; iceAr, 6,50,54, 
