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

  • Windisch, Ernst, 1844-1918.
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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    minor. Sometimes also other vowels as a eioe are influenced: laeochit acc. pi. of laech hero. 23. Infection bj w is often absent in Old Irish: Uth world, for prehist. hit-us, Old Gaulish Bitu-riges ; rith run, for l))-ehis't. rit-us ; fid tree, for prehist. vid-us, Old High German vntio; il much, for prehist. pil-u, Gothic filu; especially in the infinitive in ad of the II conjug. e.g. carad to love, for an original carajat-tis.' With fiss knowledge, for prehist. vidt-us, stands the compound cubus conscientia, that is con-fius. 24. It is only in the later language that io, io, ea, and ea (eu) (for the Old Irish i, t, e and the e of § 9) are added to the improper diphthongs of Old Irish, in cases where a broad vowel actually follows or once followed those vowels. Modern Irish each, steed ; fear, man; cead or ceud, hundred ; Moth, world; fior, true; feargach, angry; for Old Irish, ech, fer, cet, bith, fir, fergacli. Other Changes of the Vowels. 2-5. Long vowels in the (unaccentuated) suflSx-syllables of words of more than one syllable become shortened: bethad gen. sg. of beothu life, for prehistoric bivatat-as, answers to the Greek /JioTTjTo?; tuatha, nom. pi. of tuath people, answers to the Gothic ihiudos. In forms such as berit, ferunt, for prehist. berant-i; the n perhaps disappeared without compensatory lengthening. In composition even long radical syllables become shortened; ceimm gradus, to-chaimm, -chim the march : in the same way air-mituc honor proves the existence of a simple *metiu, Latin mentio. As the long accent is often left out in manuscripts, or is indistinguishable in them, it is not safe without further evidence to reckon ou the shortness of a vowel from the absence of the long accent. 26. The short or shortened vowels of median syllables of words of three or more syllables may be suppressed : cunutgini