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THE GAELIC ALPHABET.
Irish.
Roman.
Sound
Irish.
Roman.
Sound.
a
a
aw
m
m
emm
b
b
bay
n
n
enn
c
c
kay
o
o
oh
d
d
dhay
p
p
pay
e
e
ay
r
r
arr
f
f
eff
s
s
ess
g
g
gay
t
t
thay
i
i
ee
u
u
oo
l
l
ell

SECOND BOOK — Continued.
RULE 4.
PROPER NAMES,
When the latter of two nouns is a proper name
in the genitive case it suffers aspiration, if the art¬
icle be not expressed.
Exercise 8.
Pronunciation.
aimsir, time, amshir.
árdeaspog, archbishop, awurdhasbook
Bríghid, Bridget, bree-idh.
Bríghide, of Bridget, bree-idheh.
Caitilín, Catherine. kathileen.
Corcach, Cork, curcaugh.
Corcaíghe, of Cork curkeyeh.
inghean, a daughter, in-yan.
Máire, Mary, maw-ir-eh.
Micheál, Michael, me-hall.
Michil, of Michael, me-ill.
muintir, people, muinthir.
Pádraic, Patrick, pawrick.
Peadar, Peter, padhur,
Peadair, of Peter, padhirh.
Portláirge, Waterford, porthlhawrge.
súil, an eye; expectation, soo-il.
Tomás, Thomas, thumawus.
Tomáis, of Thomas, thumawish.
Tuam, Tuam, thoo-im.
Tuama, of Tuam. thoom-ah.
Examples.
1 Árdeaspog Thuama. 2 Aimsir
Phádraic. 3 Inghean Thomáis, 4 Bean
Mhichil. 5 Muintir Chorcaighe. 6 Mac
Mháire. 7 Teach Chaitilín. 8 Súil Bhrígh¬
ide. 9 Cathair Phortláirge. 10 Capall
Pheadair.
1 Archbishop of Tuam. 2 Time
of Patrick. 3 Thomas's daughter. 4
Michael's wife. 5 People of Cork. 6
Mary's son, 7 Catherine's house. 8
Bridget's eye. 9 City of Waterford.
10 Peter's horse.
It will be observed from the examples just given
that the Article is not used before the names of ci¬
ties and towns.)
EXERCISE IX.
Exceptions.
Family names following “o" or "ua"
and "mac”, a son, though always in the
genitive case, do not suffer aspiration,
but after "ní", daughter, they do.
Brian, Brian, bree-un,
Briain, of Brian, bree-in.
Dómhnall, Daniel, dho-nuhl.
Dómhnaill, of Daniel, dho-nuill.
Tadhg, Thaddeus, Thigh-ug.
Taidhg, of Thaddeus, thigh-ig.
1 Tomás Mac Thaidhg. 2 Tomás mac
Taidhg. 3 Pádraic ua Bhriain. 4 Pád¬
raic O'Briain. 5 Dómhnall O'Connaill.
6 Mac Dhómhnaill Uí Chonnaill. 7 To¬
más O'Gormain. 8 Bean Thomáis Ui
Ghormáin. 9 Máire Ní Bhriain. 10 In¬
ghean Mháire Ní Bhriain.
1 Thomas, son of Thaddeus. 2 Tho¬
mas Mac Teig. 3 Patridk, grandson
of Brian. 4 Patrick O'Brian. 5 Dan¬
lel O'Connell. 6 Son of Daniel O'Con¬
nell. 7 Thomas O'Gorman. 8 Wife
of Thomas O'Gorman. 9 Mary O'Brian
10 Daughter of Mary O'Brian.
RULE V.
ADJECTIVES.
Adjectives beginning with mutable
consonants and agreeing with the
nouns which they qualify are aspirat¬
ed in the following instances :
1st, In the nominative and accusa¬
tive singular Feminine.
2nd, In the genitive singular Mas¬
culine.
3rd. In the vocative singular of both
genders, and in the dative.
(To be continued.
