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.

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    from fo-gVmnn disco; to-thim (later but less correct tuitim) to fall, to tiiitim I fall (§ 54), -thiiii for do-cimm, Hmm for entm-e, root pat, nasalized pent. 78. Certain groups of consonants are separated by intro- duction of a vowel if they happened to be at the end of a word after the disappearance of the last syllable. This is particularly the case with the m7i derived from bn: omim fear, ess-amin fear- less, cf. Old Gaulish Exohmis; clonmn world, cf Old Gaulish Duhno-rix; tamun stem, Old S. stamn, Old H. G. sta7n, and with the tr of the suffix tra : criathar sieve. Old H. G. rtterd, Latin cHbrum; aratkar plough, Grk. aporpov; hriathar word, Grk. fpdrpa {]). The Old Irish iarn iron becomes later iarann. Perhaps olan, olancl wool (§ 46) may be explained in the same way, cf. Skr. umia, Goth.' vidla. The inclination to split up com- binations of consonants is strongly developed in Modern Irish. O'Donovan (Irish Gr. pp. 67 and 58) gives the pronunciation of : dldth as doluth, hoJg as hoUog, borb as borob, garg as gardg, corn as corrun. Examples of similar written forms are to be found in the Book of Lecan (see Windisch, Irish Texts, p. 84). Nevertheless this pronunciation cannot be old at least as regards Ig, rg, rb, cf § 67. Metathesis. 79. Metathesis sometimes occurs with and sometimes without lengthening of the vowel. (1) With lengthening of the vowel: Idm hand, Latjn palma; Idn full (for p(dn = all in corn-all praegnans), Gothic fulls, Sanskrit puma; brdge neck, Latin gurges; cndim bone, Greek Kvyjixrj, Old High German hamma hind leg; ad-glddur appello, infinitive accaldam. (2) Without lengthening of the vowel: bligini I milk, Old High German melchan; dligim I owe, Gothic dulgs; cruim worm, genitive croma, Lithuanian kirmel'e; srub snout, Latin sorbeo; cride heart, Greek KopSta, Lithuanian szirdls: fliuch wet, beside folcaim humecto; fr, fl. frequently arise thus in initial sound : 2—2