Atkinson — Two Inflexional Forms of the Verb in Irish. 437 
I. WHO-Clauses. 
The man who struck, An f eA|v -oo "buAit. 
The men who struck, tiA fitvoo buAit. 
II. WHOM-Clauses. 
The man [men] whom I struck, 
thou hast struck, 
he has struck, 
we have struck, 
you have struck, 
they have struck. 
ATI ]:eAp [iiA "oo "buAiteAf . 
•DO iDUAlllf. 
•oo "buAiL fe. 
■oo 'buAiteAtnA-p.^ 
"OO 'buAiteA'bA|\.^ 
•DO buAi'LeA'OA|\. 
III. SUBORDINATE-Clauses. 
As IT. 
It is for that reason that I struck, if a|v ah A'o'bAf pn "oo "buAiteAf. 
IV. PREPOSITIONAL-RELATIVE Clauses. 
Here, however, the new element comes in ; for after the 
prepositional-relative, the prefix 'oo is superseded by the other 
perfect-prefix |ao, which blends with the oblique relative ^(n)^ 
into -6.|A with aspiration ; []ao aspirates, just as -co]. Hence we 
have : — 
"What is the reason for which I struck, cpeAt) f'Ap "buAiteAf. 
That is the thing about which he spoke, if e fin n m'-o Af a|\ cf acu f e. 
This is the place in which we lived, if i' An aic 'n-Af coifiniiigeAmAf . 
This is the father from whom they sprang, if e An u-AUAif 6']\ f AfA'OAf . 
Negative. 
Here, too, the prefix is ]\o, blending with n^^c into riA-p [for 
n^c -po, ri^c |\', n^cx^]A], causing, of course, aspiration. 
I. WHO-Clauses. 
The man who did not praise, An fCAf nAf inot. 
The men who did not praise, nA fif nAf inot. 
1 In Munster the f is the thin-timhre f, both in 1st pL and 2ncl pi. ; hence it 
is written t)0 "buAileAniAif , -oo buAiteAbAif . This, hoAvever, is not to be com- 
mended. The ^rd pi. has ahvays the hard timbre f, "oo 'buAileA'OAf . 
The relative a is usually pronounced long, A'f • 
