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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    c/tetna: Nom. PI. M. naim thuascirt in domain: a thdrraluig Miff kith: Nom. Sg. ¥. fled chaurad: rigon...chaemcasto: tegdas clmmtachta: Dat. F. di chlaind cheit rig: alleind chorcra: co m-binne citeoil. Also in Voc. Sg. a ingen fial: Nom. Du. dd griiad chorcra Lg. 18, 13. (3) In general all stems in the Dat. Sg. CO mid chollan chain: iar cuairt chaille: do gin cJdaidib : on chomdid chumachtach: 6 Choin cherda Conchohair: na leth chli: do denani thole De: sin t-sid threll: ini lin chein. Also in the case originally distinguished from the dative (instru- mental?) which is nsed to note time : ind- adaig thussech, in the first night. (4) The Nom. Sg. cu; Cuchulaind, literally, the hound of Culann. (5) Th'e vocative particle a. (6) The pos- sessive pronouns mo my, do thy, and the masculine, a his, of the third person. (7) The Nom. Acc. Du. M. dd and F. di two : the Nom. Acc. N. tri three (tri chet), cethir four. (8) The pre- positions di, do, fo, 6, tre, air (ar), cen, fiad, imm, ol, 6s: also eter (though as to Old Irish the reverse is noted, Z.* 656). (9) The negations 7ii {mani), na, nach, nad. In Old Irish, ac- cording to Zeuss^ 179, aspiration is often absent after ni. Probably in this case the two words are not to be pronounced quickly one after the other but separately with emphasis, e.g. if, as in ni cloin non injustus, the copula is absent between the negation and the predicate. (10) The verbal particles no, ro, do. (11) The enclitic infixed pronouns -m me, -t te; of the pronouns of the 3rd person according to Z.^ 181 : d, n (eum, id), a (id, eos), which is supported in the Irish texts by '}iod chluined Lg. 8 (referring to andord M. or N.), conda thanic adiit eos Hy. 2. 39. (12) The 3rd Sg. rel. as, has, the 3rd Sg. Second Present had, the 3rd Sg. Perf. hu, ho, ha] according to Z.^ 181 also other forms of the verb substantive : as choir, and so on; has ferr Sc. M. 2 ; ro had chomairche, SC. 10; diammad char a SC. 10. 7; co m-ho chomsolus FB. 2 and so on. After had and hu aspiration is still usiial in Modern Irish (O'Douo- van, Gr. p. 386). (13) Isolated forms of other verbs: fua- chimm chein SP. ii. 10: hi tucu cheist SP. ii. 12; nad dent thoil SP. IV. 2 J tairces churathmir FB. 73. (14) Certain pro-