A concise Irish grammar : with pieces for reading / by Ernst Windisch ; translated from the German by Norman Moore.

  • Ernst Windisch
Date:
1882
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Credit: A concise Irish grammar : with pieces for reading / by Ernst Windisch ; translated from the German by Norman Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    8. d (6) I are the long a vowel sounds : mdthir, mother, ILatin mater; ru rdJi, locutus est, Gothic rodjan; imrddi, co- gitat, Gothic ga-redan ; gndlh, solitus, Greek -yvcDTos; mdr and mor, great; ri, genitive riff, king, Latin rex; lin, number; Unaim, I fill, Latin plenus, Greek irXy]-; dmu, lamb, Greek Orj-iiaTo', fir, true, Latin vents, Old Iligh German lodr; mil, beast, Greek [xrjXoi: 9. e in the a series originated through compensatory length- ening (§74): cet, hundred, Cymric cant, Latin centum; set, path, Cymric, hynt, Gothic shiths; ec, death, Cornish ancou, Latin nex; ecad, hook, Latin uncus, curved. 10. i and xt answer to the Indo-Germanic i and u (see §21): Jid, tree, Old High GerinsLn tcitu, wood; biad, victus, Greek (^lotos ; sruth, stream, Sanskrit root srit. In originally monosyllabic words u becomes o : no, verbal particle esi^ecially in the present, Greek w, Gothic nu; so-, Sanskrit su-; do-, Sanskrit dus-, Greek Sr9. 11. e and the thence derived la (compare the borrowed word fial = Latin velum), and di, 6i, commonly de, 6e, are the diphthongs of the t-series (Indo-Germanic ai, Sanskrit e): ad- feded, narrabat, ad-fmdat, narrant, Sanskrit veda; deriad, bigae. Old Gaulish reda. Old High German reita currus. de and 6e interchange in one and the same word: ()en and den, one, Latin umcs; loeg, calf, Gothic laikan; cloen, iniquus, Gothic Mains, Latin clivus, hillock, declinare. It is only in terminal sound that the e of diphthong origiti is still further attenuated to i: di, two, feminine — Sanskrit dve (compai'e the Lithuanian ie-dvi, nominative dual feminine, these both). In scian, knife, trian, third, triar, three persons, ia is not of diphthdng origin, but the a belongs to the suffi.x. On biad and many others see §82. 12. 6 and the thence derived Ha (compare the borrowed word gluass, explanatio - glossa) answer to the Indo-Germanic 1—2